Emergence of OXA-48-producing Escherichia coli in the Caribbean islands

Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 217-218

  Breurec, Sébastien ^a,b,f   Bastian, Sylvaine ^a   Cuzon, Gaelle ^c,d,e   Bernabeu, Sandrine ^c,d   Foucan, Tania ^a   Galanth, Sophie ^a   Naas, Thierry ^c,d,e   Dortet, Laurent ^c,d,e  

^a Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pointe a Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES   (France)

^c Center to Antibiotic Resistance   (France)

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

^e BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^f Hôpital de Pointe à Pitre Les Abymes   (Guadeloupe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLAVULANIC ACID; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DORIPENEM; ERTAPENEM; FOSFOMYCIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; NITROFURAN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PLASMID DNA; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TAZOBACTAM; TEMOCILLIN; TICARCILLIN; TIGECYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; DECUBITUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GUADELOUPE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; OXA 48 PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPURATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND CARE;

EID: 84941187757     PISSN: 22137165     EISSN: 22137173     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2015.04.004     Document Type: Letter

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