Editorial: New Delhi metallo beta-lactamase: What is in a name

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 251-252

  Nataraj, G ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; COLISTIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; TIGECYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; EDITORIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 77957995834     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: 09722823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.70926     Document Type: Editorial

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