Response to detection of New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase– Producing bacteria, Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1069-1070

  Andrade, Leonardo Neves ^a   Darini, Ana Lúcia Costa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEMASE; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; NEW DELHI METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE NDM-1;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRAZIL; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; NEW DELHI METALLO BETA ACTAMASE PRODUCING BACTERIA; NONHUMAN; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BRAZIL; HUMANS;

EID: 84929403377     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2106.140113     Document Type: Letter

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