A carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae epidemic clone in Jerusalem: Sequence type 512 carrying a plasmid encoding aac(6')-Ib

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 898-901

  Warburg, Gabriela ^a   Hidalgo Grass, Carlos ^a   Partridge, Sally R ^b   Tolmasky, Marcelo E ^c   Temper, Violeta ^a   Moses, Allon E ^a   Block, Colin ^a   Strahilevitz, Jacob ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoglycoside modifying enzymes; Carbapenemases; Enterobacteriaceae

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; CLONE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CARBAPENEMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84858672399     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr552     Document Type: Article

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