Two novel class I integron arrays containing IMP-18 metallo-β- lactamase gene in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates from Puerto Rico

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2119-2121

  Martinez T ^a   Vazquez, G J ^a   Aquino, E E ^a   Goering, R V ^b   Robledo, I E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COLISTIN; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN IMP 18; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUERTO RICO; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA-LACTAMASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTEGRONS; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84858693490     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05758-11     Document Type: Article

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