No NDM-1 carriage in healthy persons from Mumbai: Reassuring for now

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1046-1047

  Deshpande, Payal ^a   Vadwai, Viral ^a   Shetty, Anjali ^a   Dalal, Reeta ^a   Soman, Rajeev ^a   Rodrigues, Camilla ^a  

^a P D HINDUJA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Carbapenems; Ertapenem; ESBLs

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBAPENEM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CLAVULANIC ACID; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; NDM 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INDIA; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARRIER STATE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA;

EID: 84858669753     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr580     Document Type: Letter

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