Emergence of carbapenemases in Gram-negative bacteria in Hamburg, Germany

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 312-315

  Hentschke, Moritz ^a   Goritzka, Veronika ^a   Campos, Cristina Belmar ^a   Merkel, Philipp ^b   Ilchmann, Corina ^c   Lellek, Heinrich ^a   Scherpe, Stefanie ^a   Aepfelbacher, Martin ^a   Rohde, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Asklepios Klinik Nord Heidberg   (Germany)

^c Internal Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beta lactamase; Carbapenemase; Enterobacteriaceae; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEMASE; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DORIPENEM; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PROTEIN KPC 2; PROTEIN VIM 1; PROTEIN VIM 2; TIGECYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GERMANY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 80053919459     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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