Emergence of β-lactamases OXA-10, veb-1 and cmy in Providencia spp. from Nigeria

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1931-1932

  Aibinu, Ibukun E ^a,b   Pfeifer, Yvonne ^c   Ogunsola, Folashade ^a   Odugbemi, Tolu ^a   Koenig, Wolfgang ^b   Ghebremedhin, Beniam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^b Institute for Medical Microbiology   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

AmpC; Antimicrobial resistance; ESBLs; Molecular epidemiology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE CMY; BETA LACTAMASE OXA 10; BETA LACTAMASE VEB 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; HUMAN; LETTER; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROVIDENCIA RETTGERI; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIGERIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROVIDENCIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79960437781     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr197     Document Type: Letter

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