Balkan NDM-1: Escape or transplant?

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 164-

  Livermore, David M ^a   Walsh, Timothy R ^b   Toleman, Mark ^b   Woodford, Neil ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; NEW DELHI METALLO BETA LACTAMASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; MONTENEGRO (REPUBLIC); NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SERBIA;

BACTERIA; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EUROPE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; INDIA;

EID: 79952015361     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70048-2     Document Type: Letter

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