In vivo acquisition of a plasmid-mediated blaKPC-2 gene among clonal isolates of Serratia marcescens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2546-2549

  Tsakris, Athanassios ^a   Voulgari, Evangelia ^a   Poulou, Aggeliki ^a,b   Kimouli, Maria ^c   Pournaras, Spyros ^d   Ranellou, Kyriaki ^a   Kosmopoulou, Olga ^c   Petropoulou, Dimitra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b General District Hospital of Serres   (Greece)

^c Saint Panteleimon Hospital   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE KPC-2;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA INFECTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GREECE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SERRATIA INFECTIONS;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMIDS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 77954449743     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00264-10     Document Type: Article

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