NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae now in Turkey

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2784-2785

  Poirel, Laurent ^a   Özdamar, Melda ^b   Ocampo Sosa, Alain A ^a   Türkoglu, Salih ^b   Ozer, Ufuk Guney ^b   Nordmann, Patrice ^a  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Anadolu Medical Center   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN NDM 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; COLISTIN; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; TEICOPLANIN; THIENAMYCINS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TURKEY;

EID: 84860150373     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00150-12     Document Type: Letter

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