Prevalence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants in Enterobacteriaceae from Tunisia

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1019-1023

  Dahmen, S ^a,b   Poirel, L ^a   Mansour, W ^b   Bouallegue O ^b   Nordmann, P ^a  

^a Associated French National Reference Center for Antibiotic Resistance: Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae   (France)

^b SAHLOUL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Extended spectrum lactamase; Plasmid; Qnr; Quinolone; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NETILMICIN; PROTEIN BLALAP 2; PROTEIN QEPA; PROTEIN QNRA6; PROTEIN QNRB1; PROTEIN QNRB2; PROTEIN QNRS1; QUINOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTEGRON; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUNISIA;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE;

EID: 77954647332     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.03010.x     Document Type: Article

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