Emergence of NDM-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Greece

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 382-384

  Giakkoupi, Panagiota ^a   Tryfinopoulou, Kyriaki ^b   Kontopidou, Flora ^c   Tsonou, Paraskevi ^c   Golegou, Tina ^d   Souki, Helen ^e   Tzouvelekis, Leonidas ^f   Miriagou, Vivi ^g   Vatopoulos, Alkiviadis ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO)   (Greece)

^c HCDCP (KEELPNO)   (Greece)

^d IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e General Hospital of Aetoloakarnania   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^g HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FISTULA; GREECE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PELVIS ABSCESS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT SURGERY; URINE CULTURE;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAMASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GREECE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84887606257     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.09.001     Document Type: Letter

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