Transfer of an Escherichia coli ST131 multiresistance cassette has created a Klebsiella pneumoniae-specific plasmid associated with a major nosocomial outbreak

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-83

  Sandegren, Linus ^a   Linkevicius, Marius ^a   Lytsy, Birgitta ^a   Melhus, Åsa ^a   Andersson, Dan I ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CTX M 15; Evolution; Fitness cost; Horizontal transfer

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; COPPER; MACROLIDE; PLASMID DNA; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; SILVER; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M 15; BETA-LACTAMASE CTX-M-15;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONAL EVOLUTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; CHEMISTRY; CROSS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84859170554     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr405     Document Type: Article

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