Chromosomal blaCTX-M-15 associated with ISEcp1 in Proteus mirabilis and Morganella morganii isolated at the Military Hospital of Tunis, Tunisia

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue PART 9, 2012, Pages 1286-1289

  Mahrouki, Sihem ^a,b   Belhadj, Omrane ^b   Chihi, Hela ^b   Mohamed, Ben Moussa ^c   Celenza, Giuseppe ^a   Amicosante, Gianfranco ^a   Perilli, Mariagrazia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^c MILITARY HOSPITAL OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE CTX M; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M 15; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERTAPENEM; OFLOXACIN; PLASMID DNA; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; INTEGRON; MORGANELLA MORGANII; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TUNISIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MORGANELLA MORGANII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; TUNISIA;

EID: 84865176524     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.039487-0     Document Type: Article

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