Acquired carbapenemases in Enterobactericeae in Singapore, 1996-2012

Pathology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 600-603

  Koh, Tse Hsien ^a,b   Cao, Delphine ^b   Shan, Quek Yen ^b   Bacon, Anna ^d   Hsu, Li Yang ^a   Ooi, Eng Eong ^c  

^a Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Citrobacter species; Enterobacter cloacae; Escherichia coli; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Metallo lactamase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SINGAPORE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84887955603     PISSN: 00313025     EISSN: 14653931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAT.0b013e3283650b1e     Document Type: Article

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