Characterization of KPC-encoding plasmids from two endemic settings, Greece and Italy

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2824-2830

  Papagiannitsis, Costas C ^a,b   Di Pilato, Vincenzo ^c,d   Giani, Tommaso ^c   Giakkoupi, Panagiota ^a   Riccobono, Eleonora ^c,e   Landini, Giulia ^c   Miriagou, Vivi ^f   Vatopoulos, Alkiviadis C ^a,g   Rossolini, Gian Maria ^c,e,h,i  

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^g Hellenic Centre of Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^h CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

ⁱ IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE KPC; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GREECE; HUMAN; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KPC PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPLICON; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPIDEMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREECE; HUMANS; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84994782485     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkw227     Document Type: Article

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