A case of NDM-1-producing Acinetobacter baumannii transferred from India to Japan

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 330-332

  Nakazawa, Yasushi ^a   Ii, Ryoko ^a   Tamura, Taku ^a   Hoshina, Tokio ^a   Tamura, Kumiko ^a   Kawano, Shinji ^a   Kato, Tetsuro ^a   Sato, Fumiya ^a   Horino, Tetsuya ^a   Yoshida, Masaki ^a   Hori, Seiji ^a   Sanui, Masamitsu ^a   Ishii, Yoshikazu ^b   Tateda, Kazuhiro ^b  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; Metallo lactamase; OXA type carbapenemase

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PENICILLINASE; PROTEIN NDM 1; THIOGLYCOLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BROTH DILUTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GASTROSTOMY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INDIA; ISABA1 GENE; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM CULTURE; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 84880700380     PISSN: 1341321X     EISSN: 14377780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10156-012-0469-5     Document Type: Article

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