Characterization of a transmissible plasmid encoding VEB-1 and VIM-1 in Proteus mirabilis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4024-4025

  Papagiannitsis, C C ^a   Miriagou, V ^b   Kotsakis, S D ^b   Tzelepi, E ^b   Vatopoulos, A C ^a   Petinaki, E ^c   Tzouvelekis, L S ^b  

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEB 1 PROTEIN; VIM 1 PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS;

EID: 84862550090     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00470-12     Document Type: Letter

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