Transmission of imipenem resistance determinants during the course of an outbreak of NDM-1 Escherichia coli in a sick newborn care unit

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2773-2780

  Roy, Subhasree ^a   Singh, Arun K ^b   Viswanathan, Rajlakshmi ^b   Nandy, Ranjan K ^a   Basu, Sulagna ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Carbapenem resistance; CMY 59; Gram negative bacilli; India; Neonatal sepsis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE AMPC; CARBAPENEMASE; IMIPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; NEW DELHI METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN C; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN F; PAPC PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INGUINAL REGION; INTEGRON; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOUTH; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RECTUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SICK NEWBORN CARE UNIT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 81855190671     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr376     Document Type: Article

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