First isolate of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumonaie sequence type 23 from the Americas

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3483-3485

  Cejas, Daniela ^a   Canigia, Liliana Fernández ^b   Cruz, Giovanna Rincón ^a,c   Elena, Alan X ^a   Maldonado, Ivana ^b   Gutkind, Gabriel O ^a   Radice, Marcela A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL ALEMÁN   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE KPC-2, KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL GENE; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; SECRETION (PROCESS); VERY ELDERLY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMERICAS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAMASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING;

EID: 84906861500     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00726-14     Document Type: Article

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