Colistin and tigecycline resistance in carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae: Checkmate to our last line of defense

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 624-625

  Kumar, Mohit ^a  

^a NIIT University   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; COLISTIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; RNA 16S; TIGECYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; MINOCYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BROTH DILUTION; BURN; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; URINALYSIS; WOUND; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARBAPENEMS; COLISTIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MINOCYCLINE;

EID: 84964226722     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.31     Document Type: Letter

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