Molecular characterization of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from hospitals in Lithuania

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1263-1265

  Šeputiene, Vaida ^a   Linkevičius, Marius ^a   Bogdaite, Aurelija ^a   Povilonis, Justas ^a   Plančiuniene, Rita ^b   Giedraitiene, Agne ^b   Pavilonis, Alvydas ^b   Sužiedeliene, Edita ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; LITHUANIA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LITHUANIA;

EID: 77957324320     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.021972-0     Document Type: Letter

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