Metallo-β-lactamase-producing Gram-negative bacilli in Korean Nationwide Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance group hospitals in 2003: Continued prevalence of VIM-producing pseudomonas spp. and increase of IMP-producing Acinetobacter spp.

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-58

  Lee, Kyungwon ^a   Ha, Gyoung Yim ^b   Shin, Bo Moon ^c   Kim, Jin Ju ^d   Kang, Jung Oak ^e   Jang, Sook Jin ^f   Yong, Dongeun ^a   Chong, Yunsop ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Dongguk University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Inje University   (South Korea)

^d Inha University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Hanyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f Chosun University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter spp.; Metallo lactamase; Pseudomonas spp.; VIM 2IMP 1

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; CEFTAZIDIME; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PANIPENEM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KOREA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPUTUM; URINE;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; KOREA; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSEUDOMONAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 5444265955     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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