Plasmid-mediated 16S rRNA methylases among extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4526-4527

  Berçot, Béatrice ^a   Poirel, Laurent ^b   Nordmann, Patrice ^b  

^a HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^b BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NETILMICIN; NORFLOXACIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RIFAMPICIN; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 57049189864     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00882-08     Document Type: Letter

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