First report of a Tn402-like class 1 integron carrying blavim-2 in pseudomonas putida from Argentina

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 412-416

  Marchiaro, Patricia ^a   Viale, Alejandro M ^a   Ballerini, Viviana ^b   Rossignol, Gustavo ^c   Vila, Alejandro J ^a   Limansky, Adriana S ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^b Hospital Intendente Carrasco   (Argentina)

^c Hospital Privado de Rosario   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAMASE; TRANSPOSON; VIM-2 BETA-LACTAMASE;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BLAVIM2 BACTERIAL GENE; GENE CASSETTE; INTEGRON; INTEGRON CLASS 1; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON TN402; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARGENTINA; BETA-LACTAMASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 77955623181     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.1012     Document Type: Article

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