Molecular characterization of VIM-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae from Scandinavia reveals genetic relatedness with international clonal complexes encoding transferable multidrug resistance

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1811-1816

  Samuelsen, O ^a   Toleman, M A ^b   Hasseltvedt, V ^c   Fuursted, K ^d   Leegaard, T M ^e   Walsh, T R ^b   Sundsfjord, A ^a,f   Giske, C G ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c INNLANDET HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^g KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Integrons; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Metallo beta lactamase; MLST; Molecular epidemiology; Plasmid replicon typing; Scandinavia

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA 16S;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE STRUCTURE; GREECE; HOSPITALIZATION; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SCANDINAVIA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VIM PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

ARMA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 80051813469     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03532.x     Document Type: Article

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