The route of antimicrobial resistance from the hospital effluent to the environment: Focus on the occurrence of KPC-producing Aeromonas spp. and Enterobacteriaceae in sewage

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 80-85

  Picão, Renata C ^a,b   Cardoso, Juliana P ^a   Campana, Eloiza H ^a   Nicoletti, Adriana G ^a   Petrolini, Fernanda V B ^a   Assis, Diego M ^a,c   Juliano, Luiz ^a   Gales, Ana C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c Fundacao Parque Zoologico de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

BlaKPC dissemination; Carbapenemases; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE CARBAPENEMASE; MEROPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN; TIMENTIN; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER; AEROMONAS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLAKPC 2 GENE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EFFLUENT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HOSPITAL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLUYVERA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RIVER; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TRANSPOSON; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ACINETOBACTER; AEROMONAS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BRAZIL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; KLUYVERA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; SEWAGE;

EID: 84876714812     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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