Dispersal of carbapenemase blaVIM-1 gene associated with different Tn402 variants, mercury transposons, and conjugative plasmids in Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 320-327

  Tato, Marta ^a,b   Coque, Teresa M ^a,b,c   Baquero, Fernando ^a,b,c   Cantón, Rafael ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEMASE; CARBAPENEMASE BLA VIM1; MERCURY; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAMASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; VIM 1 METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; VIM-1 METALLO-BETA-LACTAMASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; INTEGRONS; MERCURY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 73849092816     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00783-09     Document Type: Article

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