Intrahospitalary dissemination of Klebsiella pneumoniae carrying blaDHA-1 and qnrB4 genes within a novel complex class 1 integron

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 210-211

  Pérez Moreno, Mar Olga ^a,b   Estepa, Vanesa ^c   Sáenz, Yolanda ^d   Cortell Ortolá, María ^a   Fort Gallifa, Isabel ^a   Ruiz, Joaquim ^e,f   Torres, Carmen ^c,d  

^a HOSPITAL VERGE DE LA CINTA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIÓ SANITÀRIA PERE VIRGILI IISPV   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

^d CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH OF LA RIOJA CIBIR   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BETA LACTAMASE AMPC; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLADHA 1 GENE; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNRB4 GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 84861188730     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.02.011     Document Type: Letter

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