Spread of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii carrying a plasmid with two genes encoding OXA-72 carbapenemase in Lithuanian hospitals

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1000-1006

  Povilonis, Justas ^a   Šeputiene, Vaida ^a   Krasauskas, Renatas ^a   Juškaite, Raminta ^a   Miškinyte, Monika ^a   Sužiedelis, Kestutis ^a   Sužiedeliene, Edita ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

A. baumannii; Acquired antibiotic resistance; Gram negative pathogens

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; PIPERACILLIN; SULPERAZON;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; DNA SEQUENCE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; LITHUANIA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REPLICON;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84877142087     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks499     Document Type: Article

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