Detection of NDM-1-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Romania: Report of the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue PART 3, 2014, Pages 483-484

  Deshpande, Lalitagauri M ^a   Flonta, Mirela ^b   Jones, Ronald N ^a   Castanheira, Mariana ^a  

^a JMI LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Infectious Diseases Hospital   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BROTH DILUTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUALITY CONTROL; ROMANIA;

AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BETA-LACTAMASES; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROMANIA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 84896724940     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.070334-0     Document Type: Letter

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