First report of qnrB-producing Enterobacter cloacae and qnrA-producing Acinetobacter baumannii recovered from Algerian hospitals [Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 60, 287-290, 2008] (DOI:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.10.002);First report of qnrB-producing Enterobacter cloacae and qnrA-producing Acinetobacter baumannii recovered from Algerian hospitals

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 287-290

  Touati, Abdelaziz ^a   Brasme, Lucien ^b   Benallaoua, Said ^a   Gharout, Alima ^a   Madoux, Janick ^b   De Champs, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEJAIA   (Algeria)

^b SERVICE DE DERMATOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

A. baumannii; CTX M 15; E. cloacae; QnrA; QnrB

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFPIROME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ALGERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNRA GENE; QNRB GENE;

EID: 39149117993     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.03.001     Document Type: Erratum

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