NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Mauritius

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 598-599

  Poirel, Laurent ^a   Lascols, Christine ^b   Bernabeu, Sandrine ^c   Nordmann, Patrice ^c  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Division of Microbiology   (United States)

^c Associated French National Reference Center for Antibiotic Resistance: Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEMASE; COLISTIN; DORIPENEM; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PROTEIN NDM 1; SULFONAMIDE; TIGECYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MAURITIUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; COLISTIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MAURITIUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MINOCYCLINE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84455192442     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05639-11     Document Type: Letter

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