Molecular dissection of an outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae reveals intergenus KPC carbapenemase transmission through a promiscuous plasmid

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Mathers, Amy J ^a   Cox, Heather L ^a   Kitchel, Brandon ^b   Bonatti, Hugo ^a   Brassinga, Ann Karen C ^a   Carroll, Joanne ^a   Michael Scheld, W ^a   Hazen, Kevin C ^a   Sifri, Costi D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLA GENE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER ASBURIAE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ADULT; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; TRANSPOSON;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855212129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00204-11     Document Type: Article

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