ESBL-producing strain of hypervirulent klebsiella pneumoniae K2, France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1687-1688

  Surgers, Laure ^a,b   Boyd, Anders ^b   Girard, Pierre Marie ^a,b   Arlet, Guillaume ^a,b   Decré, Dominique ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CEFOXITIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FOSFOMYCIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; LUNG LAVAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY;

BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CEPHALOSPORINS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING;

EID: 84988430931     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2209.160681     Document Type: Letter

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