KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, finally targeting Turkey

New Microbes and New Infections

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 50-51

  Labarca, J ^a,b   Poirel, L ^a,c   Ozdamar M ^d   Turkoglu S ^d   Hakko, E ^d   Nordmann, P ^a,c  

^a Associated French National Reference Center for Antibiotic Resistance: Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae   (France)

^b Rheumatology Service   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^d Anadolu Medical Center   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Carbapenemase; Colistin; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase; ST258

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFEPIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE CARBAPENEMASE 2; MEROPENEM; NITROFURANTOIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TIGECYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLAOXA 48 CARBAPENEMASE GENE; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CASE REPORT; DISK DIFFUSION; EPSILOMETER TEST; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VERY ELDERLY;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84921988865     PISSN: 20522975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nmi2.42     Document Type: Letter

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