First report of a clinical isolate of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Brazil

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 73-74

  Ferreira, A M ^a,b   Mondelli, A L ^b   Campos e Silva, J G S ^a   Javaroni, E ^a   Gambarini, P S ^a   de Oliveira Garcia, D ^c   Camargo, C H ^c  

^a Hospital Amaral Carvalho   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEFALOTIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITROFURANTOIN; NORFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; POLYMYXIN B; TIGECYCLINE; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE NDM-1;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLANDM GENE; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; SKIN INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; COMPLICATION; DISK DIFFUSION; ENZYMOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MICROBIOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BRAZIL; DISK DIFFUSION ANTIMICROBIAL TESTS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84977481267     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2016.05.019     Document Type: Letter

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