Description of the metallo-β-lactamase GIM-1 in Acinetobacter pittii

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 81-84

  Kaase, Martin ^a   Szabados, Florian ^a   Pfennigwerth, Niels ^a   Anders, Agnes ^a   Geis, Gabriele ^b   Pranada, Arthur B ^c   Röbler, Susann ^d   Lang, Uwe ^e   Gatermann, Sören G ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Medizinische Laboratoriumsdiagnostik (IML) Bochum GmbH   (Germany)

^c Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum Dr Eberhard and Partner   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e Medizinisches LaborMünster ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbapenemases; Integrons; Multilocus sequence typing; PFGE; Plasmids

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DORIPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER PITTII; ARTICLE; GERMANY; HYBRIDIZATION; INTEGRON; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

CARBAPENEMASES; INTEGRONS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PFGE; PLASMIDS;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84890348316     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkt325     Document Type: Article

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