High incidence of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-producing klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-56

  Dash, Nihar ^a   Panigrahi, Debadatta ^a   Zarouni, Mansour Al ^b   Darwish, Dania ^c   Ghazawi, Akela ^c   Sonnevend, Agnes ^c   Pal, Tibor ^c   Yasin, Faten ^a   Hadi, Shaikha Al ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Al Qassimi Hospital   (United Arab Emirates)

^c UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^d Higher College of Technology ^*  (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BENZENEBORONIC ACID; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFOTAXIME; EDETIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; OFLOXACIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THIENAMYCINS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84893796287     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2013.0040     Document Type: Article

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