Determination of integron frequency by a polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism method in multidrug-resistant escherichia coli, which causes urinary tract infections

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 546-549

  Fallah, Fatemeh ^a   Karimi, Abdollah ^a   Goudarzi, Mehdi ^a   Shiva, Farideh ^a   Navidinia, Masoumeh ^a   Hadipour Jahromi, Mana ^a   Sajadi Nia, Raheleh Sadat ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITROFURANTOIN; NORFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISK DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; INTEGRON; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; INTEGRONS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NORFLOXACIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84869450341     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2012.0073     Document Type: Article

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