Fulminating septicemia due to persistent pan-resistant community-acquired metallo - Lactamase (IMP-1)-positive Acinetobacter baumannii

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 180-182

  Telang, Nilima V ^a   Satpute, Meenakshi G ^a   Dhakephalkar, Prashant K ^b   Niphadkar, Krishna B ^a   Joshi, Suresh G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b AGHARKAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; carbapenemase extended spectrum lactamase; IMP; metallo lactamase; nosocomial infection; pan resistant; septicemia

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPHOTERICIN B; BACTERIAL RNA; CARBAPENEM; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; COLISTIN; IMP 1 PROTEIN; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PALPITATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; KIDNEY FAILURE; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPTICEMIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; TRACHEAL HEMORRHAGE; URINALYSIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BLOOD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPPURATION; TRACHEA; URINE;

EID: 79952920470     PISSN: 03774929     EISSN: 09745130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0377-4929.77397     Document Type: Article

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