Efficient transmission of IncFIIY and IncL plasmids and Klebsiella pneumoniae ST101 clone producing OXA-48, NDM-1 or OXA-181 in Bucharest hospitals

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 223-224

  Czobor, Ilda ^a,b   Novais, Ângela ^a   Rodrigues, Carla ^a   Chifiriuc, Mariana Carmen ^b   Mihăescu, Grigore ^b   Lazăr, Veronica ^b   Peixe, Luísa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CARBAPENEMASE; CARBAPENEMASE NDM 1; CARBAPENEMASE OXA 181; CARBAPENEMASE OXA 48; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; MINOCYCLINE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NETILMICIN; NITROFURANTOIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTER HORMAECHEI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INCFIIGAMMA PLASMID; INCL PLASMID; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS);

BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PLASMIDS; ROMANIA;

EID: 84979730210     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: 18727913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2016.05.004     Document Type: Letter

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