New delhi metallo-β-lactamase from traveler returning to Canada

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 242-244

  Peirano, Gisele ^a,b   Ahmed Bentley, Jasmine ^c   Woodford, Neil ^d   Pitout, Johann D ^a,b  

^a CALGARY LABORATORY SERVICES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Calgary DynaLife Diagnostic Laboratories Services   (Canada)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZTREONAM; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANADA; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INDIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PROSTATITIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; TRAVEL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; CANADA; CARBAPENEMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOSFOMYCIN; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROSTATITIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; TRAVEL; URINE;

EID: 79551624949     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1702.101313     Document Type: Article

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