Dissemination of blaVIM in Greece at the peak of the epidemic of 2005-2006: Clonal expansion of Klebsiella pneumoniae clonal complex 147

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 34-37

  Hasan, C M ^a   Turlej Rogacka, A ^a   Vatopoulos, A C ^b   Giakkoupi, P ^b   Maatallah, M ^c   Giske, C G ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

AmpC; Clonal complex; Metallo lactamase; MLST; Plasmid replicon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; GREECE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPLICON; SEROTYPING; AMPC; CLASSIFICATION; CLONAL COMPLEX; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HISTORY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; METALLO-Β-LACTAMASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MLST; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PLASMID; PLASMID REPLICON;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

BETA LACTAMASE;

AMPC; CLONAL COMPLEX; METALLO-Β-LACTAMASE; MLST; PLASMID REPLICON;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; GREECE; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMIDS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 84890787681     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12187     Document Type: Article

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