Mechanisms of increased resistance to chlorhexidine and cross-resistance to colistin following exposure of Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates to chlorhexidine

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Wand, Matthew E ^a   Bock, Lucy J ^a   Bonney, Laura C ^a   Sutton, J Mark ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorhexidine; Colistin; Klebsiella pneumoniae; PhoPQ; smvA; smvR

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CARBONYL CYANIDE CHLOROPHENYLHYDRAZONE; CEFEPIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; COLISTIN; MEROPENEM; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN MIPA; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CROSS RESISTANCE; DRUG MECHANISM; EFFUSION; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; INFECTION PREVENTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM BACTERICIDAL CONCENTRATION; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOPQ GENE; PLASMID; PMRD GENE; PMRK GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REPRESSOR GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMVA GENE; SMVR GENE; UPREGULATION; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; WILD TYPE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MUTATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLORHEXIDINE; COLISTIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS;

EID: 85009291709     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01162-16     Document Type: Article

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