Spread of NDM-2-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in the Middle East

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1928-1930

  Espina, P ^a   Poirel, L ^b   Carmeli, Y ^c   Kaase, M ^d   Pal, T ^e   Nordmann, P ^b   Vila, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Associated French National Reference Center for Antibiotic Resistance: Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae   (France)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; Carbapenemases; Metallo lactamases

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBAPENEM; NEW DELHI METALLO BETA LACTAMASE 1; NEW DELHI METALLO BETA LACTAMASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE EAST; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMID; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACINETOBACTER; CARBAPENEMASES; METALLO-Β-LACTAMASES;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AGED; BETA-LACTAMASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR TYPING; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84880754395     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkt109     Document Type: Letter

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