Widespread dissemination of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii producing OXA-23 carbapenemase and ArmA 16S ribosomal RNA methylase in a Bulgarian university hospital

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-310

  Strateva, Tanya ^a   Markova, Boyka ^b   Marteva Proevska, Yulia ^b   Ivanova, Dobrinka ^c   Mitov, Ivan ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALEXANDROVSKA   (Bulgaria)

^c Second Multiprofile Active Treatment Hospital   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PLASMID DNA; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; SULTAMICILLIN; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARMA GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BULGARIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; OXA 23 GENE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BULGARIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84862021058     PISSN: 14138670     EISSN: 16784391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1413-8670(12)70333-1     Document Type: Letter

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