Multidrug-resistant Providencia stuartii expressing extended-spectrum β-lactamase PER-1, originating in Kosovo

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1392-1393

  Poirel, Laurent ^a   Bruderer, Thomas ^b   Frei, Reno ^b   Bernabeu, Sandrine ^a   Graber, Peter ^b   Nordmann, Patrice ^a  

^a Associated French National Reference Center for Antibiotic Resistance: Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ESBLs; P. stuartii; lactamases

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CEPHAMYCIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COLISTIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PER 1; IMIPENEM; OXACILLIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TIMENTIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BROTH DILUTION; CASE REPORT; DISK DIFFUSION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMUR HEAD PROSTHESIS; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LETTER; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 44449144399     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn091     Document Type: Letter

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