Vim-2 metallo-β-lactamase-producing pseudomonas aeruginosa causing an outbreak in South Africa

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1797-1798

  Jacobson, Rachael Kiera ^a,b   Minenza, Nadia ^a   Nicol, Mark ^a,b   Bamford, Colleen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

lactamases; Carbapenem resistance; Haematology

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBAPENEM; GENOMIC DNA; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BILE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATHETER INFECTION; CLONE; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SOUTH AFRICA; URINALYSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84862696216     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks100     Document Type: Letter

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