Escherichia coli producing VIM-1 carbapenemase isolated on a pig farm

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1793-1795

  Fischer, Jennie ^a   Rodríguez, Irene ^a   Schmoger, Silvia ^a   Friese, Anika ^b   Roesler, Uwe ^b   Helmuth, Reiner ^a   Guerra, Beatriz ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Carbapenems; Class 1 integrons; Livestock; Plasmids

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFALOTIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTIOFUR; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERTAPENEM; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; MEROPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN; PORIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TICARCILLIN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PRODUCING VIM 1 CARBAPENEMASE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IN VIVO STUDY; KLEBSIELLA; LETTER; LIVESTOCK; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA;

ANIMALS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENE ORDER; INTEGRONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84862673272     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks108     Document Type: Letter

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