Dissemination of the blaKPC gene by clonal spread and horizontal gene transfer: Comparative study of incidence and molecular mechanisms

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2143-2146

  Adler, Amos ^a,b   Khabra, Efrat ^a,b   Paikin, Svetlana ^c   Carmeli, Yehuda ^a,b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c LANIADO HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONJUGATION; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; JOINT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PLASMID; SPECIES; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING;

BETA LACTAMASE;

BETA-LACTAMASES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84979627842     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkw106     Document Type: Article

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