Prevalence and characterization of class I integrons among Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from patients in Nanjing, China

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 241-243

  Gu, Bing ^a   Tong, Mingqing ^a   Zhao, Wenjun ^a   Liu, Genyan ^a   Ning, Mingzhe ^b   Pan, Shiyang ^a   Zhao, Wangsheng ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE AFFILIATED DRUM TOWER HOSPITAL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; GENE CASSETTE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHINA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 33846221040     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01318-06     Document Type: Article

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