Identification of a New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-4 (NDM-4)-producing Enterobacter cloacae from a Czech patient previously hospitalized in Sri Lanka

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 547-549

  Papagiannitsis, Costas C ^a   Studentova, Vendula ^a   Chudackova, Eva ^a   Bergerova, Tamara ^a   Hrabak, Jaroslav ^a   Radej, Jaroslav ^a   Novak, Ivan ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAMASE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECRETION (PROCESS); SRI LANKA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CZECH REPUBLIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84884648707     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12223-013-0247-5     Document Type: Article

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