Diversity of carbapenemases in clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae in Croatia-the results of a multicentre study

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages O894-O903

  Zujic Atalic V ^a   Bedenic B ^b,c   Kocsis, E ^d   Mazzariol, A ^d   Sardelic S ^e   Barisic M ^f   Plecko V ^b,c   Bosnjak Z ^c   Mijac M ^c   Jajic I ^g   Vranic Ladavac M ^h   Cornaglia, G ^d  

^a Institute of Public Health Osijek   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^f Elementary School Vara din   (Croatia)

^g SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^h Istria County Public Health Institute   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Enterobacteriaceae; KPC; NDM; VIM; Carbapenems

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CROATIA; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENOTYPE; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTEGRON; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTICENTER STUDY;

CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CROATIA; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR TYPING;

EID: 84917733651     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12635     Document Type: Article

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