Intercontinental travels of patients and dissemination of plasmid-mediated carbapenemase KPC-3 associated with OXA-9 and TEM-1 [3]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 455-457

  Dortet, Laurent ^a   Radu, Irina ^a   Gautier, Valérie ^b   Blot, François ^a   Chachaty, Elisabeth ^a   Arlet, Guillaume ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

Author keywords

Lactamases; Carbapenems; Enterobacter cloacae

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE KPC 3; BETA LACTAMASE OXA 9; BETA LACTAMASE TEM 1; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CLAVULANIC ACID; IMIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFONAMIDE; TICARCILLIN; TIMENTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SEPSIS; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TRAVEL;

ADULT; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; TRAVEL;

EID: 38349191639     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm455     Document Type: Letter

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