The Balkan region: NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 clonal strain causing outbreaks in Greece

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2091-2097

  Voulgari, Evangelia ^a   Gartzonika, Constantina ^b   Vrioni, Georgia ^a   Politi, Lida ^a   Priavali, Efthalia ^b   Levidiotou Stefanou, Stamatina ^b   Tsakris, Athanassios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carbapenemases; K. pneumoniae; Sequence types

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TIGECYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE NDM-1; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CARBAPENEMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NDM 1 PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URINE CULTURE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84904566437     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dku105     Document Type: Article

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