Emergence of carbapenem-resistant hafnia: The fall of the last soldier

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1429-1431

  Skurnik, David ^a   Nucci, Amandine ^b   Ruimy, Raymond ^a   Lasocki, Sigismond ^a   Muller Serieys, Claudette ^a   Montravers, Philippe ^a   Andremont, Antoine ^a   Courvalin, Patrice ^b  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HAFNIA ALVEI; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CARBAPENEMS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HAFNIA; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77951862750     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652289     Document Type: Letter

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