The mechanism of high-level carbapenem resistance in klebsiella pneumoniae: Underlying ompk36-deficient strains represent a threat of emerging high-level carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae with IMP-1 β-lactamase production in Japan

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 274-281

  Sho, Takehiko ^a   Muratani, Tetsuro ^b   Hamasuna, Ryoichi ^a   Yakushiji, Hiroko ^c   Fujimoto, Naohiro ^a   Matsumoto, Tetsuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Kyurin Corporation   (Japan)

^c Hibiki Research Group   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CEFTAZIDIME; GENOMIC DNA; IMIPENEM; IMP 1 PROTEIN; MEROPENEM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTITIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OUTER MEMBRANE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STOP CODON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; JAPAN; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PORINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84880860730     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2012.0248     Document Type: Article

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