Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates expressing the blaOXA-23 gene associated with ISAba4 in Belgium

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4205-4206

  Bogaerts, Pierre ^a   Cuzon, Gaelle ^b,c   Naas, Thierry ^b,c   Bauraing, Caroline ^a   Deplano, Ariane ^d   Lissoir, Bénédicte ^e   Nordmann, Patrice ^f   Glupczynski, Youri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Inst Jean Roget Fac Med P   (France)

^d ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e Hopital St Joseph   (Belgium)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BELGIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; LETTER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BELGIUM; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 55849094356     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01121-08     Document Type: Letter

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