Emergence of blaKPC-3-Tn4401a associated with a pKPN3/4-like plasmid within ST384 and ST388 Klebsiella pneumoniae clones in Spain

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1608-1614

  Curiao, Tânia ^a   Morosini, María Isabel ^a   Ruiz Garbajosa, Patricia ^a   Robustillo, Ana ^a   Baquero, Fernando ^a,b   Coque, Teresa M ^a,b   Cantón, Rafael ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

lactamases; Clinical K. pneumoniae; Transposons

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M; CARBAPENEMASE; CARBAPENEMASE KPC 3; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; NALIDIXIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA-LACTAMASE KPC-3, KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; TRANSPOSON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLA GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANSPOSON; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN;

EID: 77954711613     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkq174     Document Type: Article

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