Molecular epidemiology of escherichia coli producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases isolated in Rome, Italy

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-108

  Carattoli, Alessandra ^a   García Fernández, Aurora ^a   Varesi, Paola ^b   Fortini, Daniela ^a   Gerardi, Serena ^b   Penni, Adriano ^b   Mancini, Carlo ^b   Giordano, Alessandra ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; ITALY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; ROME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 38149001376     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01542-07     Document Type: Article

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