Evolution of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates obtained from elderly patients with respiratory tract infections

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1220-1222

  Canduela, Miren J ^a   Gallego, Lucía ^a   Sevillano, Elena ^a   Valderrey, Cristina ^a   Calvo, Felícitas ^b   Pérez, Julia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b Hospital de Santa Marina   (Spain)

Author keywords

A. baumannii; Carbapenemases; Integrons; OXA 40; Resistance

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAMASE; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE APAI; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTEGRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR SIZE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 33749161415     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkl129     Document Type: Article

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