Emergence of metallo-β-lactamase GIM-1 in a clinical isolate of Serratia marcescens

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4945-4947

  Rieber, Heime ^a   Frontzek, Andre ^a   Pfeifer, Yvonne ^b  

^a Division of Microbiology   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE GIM 1; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TIGECYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; HUMAN; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; URINALYSIS; UROSEPSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 84865416562     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00405-12     Document Type: Article

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