Piperacillin/tazobactam-heteroresistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa from urinary infection, successfully treated by piperacillin/tazobactam [8]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 757-758

  Pournaras, Spyros ^a,c   Ikonomidis, Alexandros ^a   Neou, Evangelia ^a   Kantzanou, Maria ^a   Maniatis, Antonios N ^a   Tsakris, Athanassios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

lactams; Heterogeneity; Heteroresistance; Persisters; Population analysis; Time kill

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING CAPACITY; LETTER; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MALE; PENICILLANIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 40049088938     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm528     Document Type: Letter

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