First detection of bla IMI-2 gene in a clinical Escherichia coli strain

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1146-1147

  Rojo Bezares, Beatriz ^a   Martín, Carmen ^b   López, María ^c   Torres, Carmen ^c   Sáenz, Yolanda ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH OF LA RIOJA CIBIR   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL SAN PEDRO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFALOTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DORIPENEM; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TICARCILLIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; BLAIMI 2 GENE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE; HUMAN; LETTER; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CASE REPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; CARBAPENEMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84856072286     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05478-11     Document Type: Letter

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