International travel with acquisition of multi-drug resistant Gram negative bacteria containing the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase gene, bla NDM-1

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-48

  Arya, Subhash C ^a   Agarwal, Nirmala ^a  

^a SANT PARMANAND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; NEW DELHI METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; EMERGENCY CARE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIA; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MORGANELLA MORGANII; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; PROVIDENCE; PROVIDENCIA RETTGERI;

BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 79951809052     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.12.002     Document Type: Letter

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