Tetracycline susceptibility testing and resistance genes in isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii-Acinetobacter calcoaceticus complex from a U.S. military hospital

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2693-2695

  Akers, Kevin S ^a   Mende, Katrin ^c   Yun, Heather C ^a,b   Hospenthal, Duane R ^a,b   Beckius, Miriam L ^a   Yu, Xin ^a   Murray, Clinton K ^a,b  

^a SAN ANTONIO MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; MINOCYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TETA GENE; TETB GENE; UNITED STATES; WOUND INFECTION;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; DOXYCYCLINE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MINOCYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 67049107789     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01405-08     Document Type: Article

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