OXA-24 carbapenemase gene flanked by XerC/XerD-like recombination sites in different plasmids from different Acinetobacter species isolated during a nosocomial outbreak

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2724-2727

  Merino, María ^a   Acosta, Joshi ^b   Poza, Margarita ^a   Sanz, Francisca ^b   Beceiro, Alejandro ^a   Chaves, Fernando ^b   Bou, Germán ^a  

^a HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; PROTEIN OXA24; PROTEIN XERC; PROTEIN XERD; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING SITE; BLA OXA 24 GENE; CLONE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77952659124     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01674-09     Document Type: Article

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