Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate co-expressing extended-spectrum β-lactamase PER-1 and metallo-β-lactamase VIM-2 from Turkey [3]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 221-222

  Yakupogullari, Yusuf ^a   Poirel, Laurent ^b   Bernabeu, Sandrine ^b   Kizirgil, Ahmet ^c   Nordmann, Patrice ^d  

^a MALATYA STATE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b South Paris Medical School   (France)

^c FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

ESBLs; MBLs; P. aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE VIM2; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; COLISTIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PER1 PROTEIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RIFAMPICIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

BETA-LACTAMASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; TURKEY;

EID: 37549057334     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm420     Document Type: Letter

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