Molecular characterization of class 1 integrons in MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from clinical settings in Iran, Tehran

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 421-425

  Shahcheraghi, Fereshteh ^a   Badmasti, Farzad ^a   Feizabadi, Mohammad M ^b  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Gene cassette array; Integron; Multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MDRPA)

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISK DIFFUSION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTEGRON; IRAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; IRAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77949369246     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2009.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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