Molecular characterization of carbapenem-resistant strains of klebsiella pneumoniae Isolated from Iranian Patients: First Identification of bla KPC Gene in Iran

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 285-293

  Nobari, Saman ^a   Shahcheraghi, Fereshteh ^a   Rahmati Ghezelgeh, Fatemeh ^a   Valizadeh, Babak ^b  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b Bahar Medical Laboratory   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; ISOENZYME;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; DISK DIFFUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; INTEGRON; IRAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; CELL CLONE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PLASMID;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CLONE CELLS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; IRAN; ISOENZYMES; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84905178087     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2013.0074     Document Type: Article

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