Detection and characterization of two NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strains from Bulgaria

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1428-1430

  Kostyanev, T ^a   Strateva, T ^b   Xavier, B B ^a   Marteva Proevska, Y ^c   Lammens, C ^a   Markova, B ^c   Goossens, H ^a   Malhotra Kumar, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALEXANDROVSKA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BULGARIA; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEW DELHI METALLO BETA LACTAMASE 1 PRODUCING KLEIBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL GENE; CASE REPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE NDM-1;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BULGARIA; FEMALE; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84965026128     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkv471     Document Type: Letter

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