First detection of a VIM-1 metallo-β-lactamase in a carbapenem-resistant Citrobacter freundii clinical isolate in an acute hospital in Germany

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 264-266

  Weile, Jan ^a   Rahmig, Harald ^b   Gfroerer, Sabine ^c   Schroeppel, Klaus ^a   Knabbe, Cornelius ^a   Susa, Milorad ^a  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b Hospital Waiblingen   (Germany)

^c MARIENHOSPITAL STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PIPERACILLIN;

ABSCESS; ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTEGRON; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CILASTATIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33847271623     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540600868388     Document Type: Article

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