NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, Croatia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 532-534

  Mazzariol, Annarita ^a   Bošnjak, Zrinka ^b   Ballarini, Piero ^a   Budimir, Ana ^b   Bedenić, Branka ^b   Kalenić, Smilja ^b   Cornaglia, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZIDE; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; METRONIDAZOLE; NEW DELHI METALLO BETA LACTAMASE 1; TIGECYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLACMY 16 GENE; BLACTX M 15 GENE; BLAGIM GENE; BLAIMP GENE; BLANDM GENE; BLASIM GENE; BLASMP GENE; BLAVIM GENE; BLOOD CULTURE; BROTH DILUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MEDICAL HISTORY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; QNRA6 GENE; REPLICON;

EID: 84857604012     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1803.1103890     Document Type: Letter

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