Dissemination of nim-class genes, encoding nitroimidazole resistance, among different species of Gram-negative anaerobic bacteria isolated in Athens, Greece [1]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 705-706

  Katsandri, Anastasia ^a,b   Avlamis, Athina ^a   Pantazatou, Angeliki ^a   Houhoula, Dimitra P ^b   Papaparaskevas, Joseph ^b  

^a LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anaerobes; Resistance epidemiology; Resistance mechanisms

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE; NITROIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUSOBACTERIUM; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; GREECE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVALENCE; PREVOTELLA BIVIA; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; GREECE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NITROIMIDAZOLES;

EID: 33747878548     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkl285     Document Type: Letter

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