Achromobacter xylosoxidans: An emerging pathogen carrying different elements involved in horizontal genetic transfer

Current Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 673-678

  Traglia, German Matías ^a   Almuzara, Marisa ^a   Merkier, Andrea Karina ^a   Adams, Christina ^a   Galanternik, Laura ^b   Vay, Carlos ^a   Centrón, Daniela ^a   Ramírez, María Soledad ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIFAMOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLA AMPC GENE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRON; INTI1 GENE; INTI2 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ACHROMOBACTER DENITRIFICANS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARGENTINA; CROSS INFECTION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84871301986     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-012-0213-5     Document Type: Article

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