Identification of TEM-135 β-lactamase in penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains in Japan

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3021-3023

  Ohnishi, Makoto ^a   Ono, Emi ^b   Shimuta, Ken ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a   Okamura, Noboru ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE TEM 1; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLINASE; PLASMID DNA; TEM 135 BETA LACTAMASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASMID;

BETA-LACTAMASES; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PENICILLINASE; PLASMIDS;

EID: 77953764550     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00245-10     Document Type: Article

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