Fecal carriage of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae: A hidden reservoir in hospitalized and nonhospitalized patients

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1558-1563

  Gijón, Desirèe ^a   Curiao, Tânia ^a   Baquero, Fernando ^a,b   Coque, Teresa M ^a,b   Cantóna, Rafael ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO RAMÓN Y CAJAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SANITARIA IRYCIS   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; DORIPENEM; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLA SHV 12 GENE; BLA VIM 1 GENE; CARBAPENEMASE GENE; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARRIER STATE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FECES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84859982546     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00020-12     Document Type: Article

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