OXA-48-like carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Ottawa, Canada

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 399-400

  Ellis, Chelsey ^a,b   Chung, Catherine ^c   Tijet, Nathalie ^c   Patel, Samir N ^c,d   Desjardins, Marc ^a,b,e   Melano, Roberto G ^c,d,f   Toye, Baldwin ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; ONTARIO; PLASMIDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879127668     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.04.017     Document Type: Letter

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