High diversity of extended-spectrum β-lactamases among clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae from Portugal

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1370-1374

  Machado, Elisabete ^a,b,c   Coque, Teresa M ^b   Cantón, Rafael ^b   Novais, Ângela ^b   Sousa, João Carlos ^c   Baquero, Fernando ^b   Peixe, Luísa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FERNANDO PESSOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Clonal dissemination; CTX M 15; Epidemic plasmids; ESBLs epidemiology; SHV; TEM

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NETILMICIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EUROPE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

EID: 36448967473     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm381     Document Type: Article

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