Convenient test using a combination of chelating agents for detection of metallo-β-lactamases in the clinical laboratory

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2798-2801

  Kim, Soo Young ^a   Seong, Geun Hong ^a   Moland, Ellen S ^a   Thomson, Kenneth S ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE AMPC; CEFTAZIDIME; CHELATING AGENT; EDETIC ACID; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THIOLACTIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AEROMONAS VERONII; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHRYSEOBACTERIUM MENINGOSEPTICUM; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; CHELATING AGENTS; ENZYME INDUCTION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AEROMONAS VERONII; ELIZABETHKINGIA MENINGOSEPTICA; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 34548666381     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02486-06     Document Type: Article

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