First identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates producing a KPC-type carbapenem-hydrolyzing β-lactamase

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1553-1555

  Villegas, Maria Virginia ^a   Lolans, Karen ^b,c   Correa, Adriana ^a   Kattan, Juan Nicolas ^a   Lopez, Jaime A ^d   Quinn, John P ^b,c,e,f  

^a CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

^b John Stroger Hospital   (United States)

^c Chicago Infectious Disease Research Institute   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL PABLO TOBÓN URIBE   (Colombia)

^e RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; AZTREONAM PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLAVULANIC ACID PLUS IMIPENEM; CLAVULANIC ACID PLUS MEROPENEM; COLISTIN; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KPC TYPE CLASS A CARBAPANEMASE; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; COLOMBIA; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HYDROLYSIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 34247178075     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01405-06     Document Type: Article

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