Carriage of OXA-58 but not of OXA-51 β-lactamase gene correlates with carbapenem resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1097-1099

  Tsakris, Athanassios ^a   Ikonomidis, Alexandros ^b   Pournaras, Spyros ^b   Spanakis, Nicholas ^a   Markogiannakis, Antonios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carbapenemase; Greece; Imipenem; ISAbA1; ISAbA3; Meropenem; Oxacillinase

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE OXA 58, ACINETOBACTER JUNII; BETA-LACTAMASE OXA-58, ACINETOBACTER JUNII; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; THIENAMYCIN DERIVATIVE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; THIENAMYCINS;

EID: 38649128655     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkl365     Document Type: Letter

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