A plasmid-borne blaOXA-58 gene confers imipenem resistance to Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from a Lebanese hospital

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4115-4120

  Zarrilli, Raffaele ^a   Vitale, Domenico ^b   Di Popolo, Anna ^a   Bagattini, Maria ^a   Daoud, Ziad ^c   Khan, Asad U ^d   Afif, Claude ^c   Triassi, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND   (Lebanon)

^d ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; HYDROLASE; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PROTEIN OXA 58; SULTAMICILLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BASE PAIRING; BLA OXA 58 GENE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE REPLICATION; LEBANON; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PLASMID ABIR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; BACTERIAL GENE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; LEBANON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS;

EID: 55849086187     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00366-08     Document Type: Article

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