Complex class 1 integrons with diverse variable regions, including aac(6′)-Ib-cr, and a novel allele, qnrB10, associated with ISCR1 in clinical enterobacterial isolates from Argentina

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4466-4470

  Quiroga, María Paula ^a   Andres, Patricia ^b   Petroni, Alejandro ^b   Bistué, Alfonso J C Soler ^a   Guerriero, Leonor ^b   Vargas, Liliana Jordá ^a   Zorreguieta, Angeles ^a   Tokumoto, Marta ^c   Quiroga, Cecilia ^a   Tolmasky, Marcelo E ^d   Galas, Marcelo ^b   Centrón, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN FAVALORO   (Argentina)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GATIFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; MOXIFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QNRB10 PROTEIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RECOMBINASE; SULFAFURAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGENTINA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 36749021567     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00726-07     Document Type: Article

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