Molecular epidemiology and mechanisms of rifampicin resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Italy

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 58-63

  Giannouli, Maria ^a   Di Popolo, Anna ^a   Durante Mangoni, Emanuele ^b   Bernardo, Mariano ^c   Cuccurullo, Susanna ^c   Amato, Gerardino ^d   Tripodi, Marie Francoise ^b   Triassi, Maria ^a   Utili, Riccardo ^b   Zarrilli, Raffaele ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c MONALDI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d CARDARELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; Efflux pump inhibitors; Genotyping; Rifampicin resistance; rpoB mutations; Time kill studies

Indexed keywords

2 NAPHTHYLAMINE; COLISTIN; PHENYL ARGININE BETA NAPHTHYLAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ITALY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; ITALY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MUTATION; RIFAMPIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 82955162514     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: 18727913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2011.09.016     Document Type: Article

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