Rapid dissemination of colistin and carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Central Greece: Mechanisms of resistance, molecular identification and epidemiological data

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Oikonomou, O ^a   Sarrou, S ^a   Papagiannitsis, C C ^a,b   Georgiadou, S ^c   Mantzarlis, K ^c   Zakynthinos, E ^c   Dalekos, G N ^c   Petinaki, E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

A. baumannii; Colistin resistance; Greece; ST101

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBAPENEM; COLISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; PROTEIN PMRA; PROTEIN PMRC; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TIGECYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA EXTRACTION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE MUTATION; GREECE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IPXA GENE; IPXD GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PMRCAB GENE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PYELONEPHRITIS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; DRUG EFFECTS; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARBAPENEMS; COLISTIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING;

EID: 84952871316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-1297-x     Document Type: Article

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