Evolution of an incompatibility group IncA/C plasmid harboring bla CMY-16 and qnrA6 genes and its transfer through three clones of Providencia stuartii during a two-year outbreak in a Tunisian burn unit

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1342-1349

  Arpin, C ^a   Thabet, L ^b   Yassine, H ^a   Messadi, A A ^b   Boukadida, J ^c   Dubois, V ^a   Coulange Mayonnove, L ^a   Andre, C ^a   Quentina, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b Hopital Aziza Othmana   (Tunisia)

^c FARHAT HACHED HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLOXACILLIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; ISEPAMICIN; NEOMYCIN; NETILMICIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BURN UNIT; CLONE; EPIDEMIC; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTEGRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAMASES; BURN UNITS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; PROVIDENCIA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TUNISIA;

EID: 84857147067     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05267-11     Document Type: Article

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