Diversity of acquired β-lactamases amongst Klebsiella pneumoniae in Greek hospitals

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 178-180

  Papagiannitsis, Constantinos C ^a   Tryfinopoulou, Kyriaki ^b   Giakkoupi, Panagiota ^a   Pappa, Olga ^b   Polemis, Michalis ^b   Tzelepi, Eva ^c   Tzouvelekis, Leonidas S ^d   Vatopoulos, Alkiviadis C ^a,b   Malamou Lada, Eleni ^e   Orfanidou, Maria ^e   Tsiplakou, Sofia ^f   Papaioannou, Vassiliki ^f   Fakiri, Helen ^f   Skarmoutsou, Nikoleta ^f   Kairis, Dimitris ^f   Papoutsidou, Eleni ^f   Katsifa, Helen ^g   Kesidou, Fani ^g   Tsafaraki, Ekaterini ^h   Tsouri, Anna ^h   Platsouka, Evangelia ^f   Roussou, Zoi ^f   Kaitsa Tsiopoulou, Helen ⁱ   Kazila, Polizo ⁱ   more..

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Centre of Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^c HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^e G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^f KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^g G PAPANICOLAOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^h Department of Microbiology   (Greece)

ⁱ THEAGENIO CANCER HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; DORIPENEM; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GREECE; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; ISOELECTRIC POINT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR TYPING;

EID: 84855511028     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: 18727913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2011.09.024     Document Type: Letter

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