ST405 NDM-5 producing Escherichia coli in Northern Italy: the first two clinical cases

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 489-490

  Bitar, I ^a   Piazza, A ^a   Gaiarsa, S ^b,c   Villa, L ^d   Pedroni, P ^e   Oliva, E ^e   Nucleo, E ^a   Pagani, L ^a   Carattoli, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^e Clinical and Microbiological Laboratory Diagnostics Department Spedali Civili of Brescia   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COLISTIN; FOSFOMYCIN; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TIGECYCLINE; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE NDM-1;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; EMERGENCY WARD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; GALLSTONE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PANCREATITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; THAILAND; TRAVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; EXTRAINTESTINAL PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

AGED; BETA-LACTAMASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EXTRAINTESTINAL PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 85014127783     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.01.020     Document Type: Letter

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