Interspecies spread of klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase gene in a single patient

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1736-1738

  Sidjabat, Hanna E ^a,b   Silveira, Fernanda P ^a   Potoski, Brian A ^a   Abu Elmagd, Kareem M ^a   Adams Haduch, Jennifer M ^a   Paterson, David L ^a,b   Doi, Yohei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFEPIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; COLISTIMETHATE; COLISTIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DORIPENEM; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULTAMICILLIN; TACROLIMUS; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; MORGANELLA MORGANII; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 72849112057     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648077     Document Type: Article

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