Nosocomial spread of ESBL-positive Enterobacter cloacae co-expressing plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance Qnr determinants in one hospital in France

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 653-654

  Potron, Anaïs ^a   Poirel, Laurent ^a   Bernabeu, Sandrine ^a   Monnet, Xavier ^b   Richard, Christian ^b   Nordmann, Patrice ^a  

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

^b BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Dissemination; E. cloacae; Enterobacteriaceae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; IMIPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; PROTEIN QNR; PROTEIN QNRA; PROTEIN QNRB; PROTEIN QNRC; PROTEIN QNRD; PROTEIN QNRS; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TIGECYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISK DIFFUSION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FATALITY; FRANCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 69049098189     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkp222     Document Type: Letter

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