High prevalence of the aac(6′)-Ib-cr gene and its dissemination among Enterobacteriaceae isolates by CTX-M-15 plasmids in Bulgaria

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 335-336

  Sabtcheva, Stefana ^a,d   Kaku, Mitsuo ^a   Saga, Tomoo ^b   Ishii, Yoshikazu ^b   Kantardjiev, Todor ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

^d National Oncology Center Bulgaria   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN;

AAC(6') IB CR GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BULGARIA; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MORGANELLA MORGANII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNRB GENE;

BETA-LACTAMASES; BULGARIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENES, BACTERIAL; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PLASMIDS;

EID: 59749095480     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00584-08     Document Type: Letter

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