Emergence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolates in the Moroccan community

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 290-291

  Barguigua, Abouddihaj ^a   El Otmani, Fatima ^b   Talmi, Mustapha ^b   Zerouali, Khalid ^b   Timinouni, Mohammed ^c  

^a Institut Pasteur du Maroc   (Morocco)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^c IBN ROCHD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Morocco)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PLASMID DNA; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISK DIFFUSION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPSILOMETER TEST; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORGANELLA MORGANII; MOROCCO; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOROCCO;

EID: 84862215627     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.03.011     Document Type: Letter

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