qnr prevalence in ceftazidime-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates from the United States

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2872-2874

  Robicsek, A ^a,d   Strahilevitz, J ^a   Sahm, D F ^b   Jacoby, G A ^c   Hooper, D C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Focus Bio Inova Inc   (United States)

^c LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d EVANSTON NORTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNR GENE; SCREENING; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CEFTAZIDIME; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746932128     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01647-05     Document Type: Article

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