Double copies of blaKPC-3::Tn4401a on an IncX3 plasmid in Klebsiella pneumoniae successful clone ST512 from Italy

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 646-649

  Fortini, Daniela ^a   Villa, Laura ^a   Feudi, Claudia ^a   Pires, João ^b   Bonura, Celestino ^c   Mammina, Caterina ^c   Endimiani, Andrea ^b   Carattoli, Alessandra ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DORIPENEM; DOXYCYCLINE; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE CARBAPENEMASE 3; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PLASMID DNA; POLYMYXIN B; TIGECYCLINE; TIMENTIN; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; TRANSPOSON;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENSIVELY DRUG RESISTANT BACTERIUM; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE CARBAPENEMASE 3 PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CELL CLONE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; TRANSPOSON;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CLONE CELLS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84957885131     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01886-15     Document Type: Article

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