Frequent carriage of resistance mechanisms to β-lactams and biofilm formation in Haemophilus influenzae causing treatment failure and recurrent otitis media in young children

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2394-2399

  García Cobos, Silvia ^a,b   Moscoso, Miriam ^c   Pumarola, Félix ^d   Arroyo, Margarita ^a   Lara, Noelia ^a   Pérez Vázquez, María ^a   Aracil, Belén ^a   Oteo, Jesús ^a   García, Ernesto ^c   Campos, José ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^e CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

AOM; GBLNAR; H. influenzae

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFIXIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFUROXIME; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; BROTH DILUTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYRINGOTOMY; NONHUMAN; NONTYPEABLE HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; OPTICAL DENSITY; OTITIS; OTITIS MEDIA; OTORRHEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT FAILURE; BACTERIAL GENE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BIOFILMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INFANT; OTITIS MEDIA; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84905980027     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dku158     Document Type: Article

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