Emergence of multi and pan-drug resistance Acinetobacter baumannii carrying blaOXA-type-carbapenemase genes among burn patients in Tehran, Iran

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 623-624

  Taherikalani, Morrovat ^a   Etemadi, Gelavizh ^c   Geliani, Keramat N ^b   Fatollahzadeh, Bahram ^a   Soroush, Setareh ^a   Feizabadi, Mohammad M ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Chamran Hospital   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTETAN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; NETILMICIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TIGECYCLINE; TIMENTIN; TOBRAMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IRAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BURNS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IRAN;

EID: 46749118071     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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