Arrival of Klebsiella pneumoniae producing KPC carbapenemase in the United Kingdom

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1261-1264

  Woodford, Neil ^a   Zhang, Jiancheng ^a   Warner, Marina ^a   Kaufmann, Mary E ^a   Matos, Jorge ^a   MacDonald, Alan ^b   Brudney, Daniel ^c   Sompolinsky, David ^d,e   Navon Venezia, Shiri ^f   Livermore, David M ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b CROSSHOUSE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d MAAYANEI HAYESHUA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Class A lactamase; Enterobacteriaceae; International clone; Mobile genetic element; Non metallo carbapenemase

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAM; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPIROME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLOXACILLIN; COLISTIN; EDETIC ACID; ERTAPENEM; GENOMIC DNA; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE CARBAPENEMASE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE CARBAPENEMASE 3; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE LOCATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ISRAEL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 56649100785     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn396     Document Type: Article

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