Global spread of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase 1

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 829-830

  Hammerum, Anette M ^a   Toleman, Mark A ^b   Hansen, Frank ^a   Kristensen, Brian ^c   Lester, Camilla H ^a   Walsh, Timothy R ^b   Fuursted, Kurt ^c  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEW DELHI METALLO BETA LACTAMASE 1; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CASE REPORT; DENMARK; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRAVEL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; DENMARK; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 78649426967     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70276-0     Document Type: Letter

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