Interspecies dissemination of a novel class 1 integron carrying bla IMP-19 among acinetobacter species in Japan

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2480-2483

  Yamamoto, Masaki ^a   Nagao, Miki ^a   Matsumura, Yasufumi ^a   Matsushima, Aki ^a   Ito, Yutaka ^a   Takakura, Shunji ^a   Ichiyama, Satoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbapenems; Gene cassettes; Mechanisms of resistance; Metallo lactamases

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; CARBAPENEMASE; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENZYME RELEASE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; JAPAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80054708725     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr336     Document Type: Article

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