Detection of three stable genetic clones of CTX-M-15-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in the Barcelona metropolitan area, Spain

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 862-864

  Coelho, Alicia ^a,b   Mirelis, Beatriz ^b,c   Alonso Tarrés, Carles ^d   Larrosa, María Nieves ^a,b   Miró, Elisenda ^c   Abad, Raquel Clivillé ^d   Bartolomé, Rosa María ^a,b   Castañer, Mireia ^d   Prats, Guillem ^a,b   Johnson, James R ^e   Navarro, Ferran ^b,c   González López, Juan José ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL GENERAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

AAC(6 ) Ib; Clonal dissemination; Hospital outbreak; MLST; OXA 1

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M15; CIPROFLOXACIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; PROTEIN QEPA; PROTEIN QNR; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; SPAIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAMASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; SPAIN;

EID: 70349456239     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkp264     Document Type: Letter

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