Major role of pKpQIL-like plasmids in the early dissemination of KPC-type carbapenemases in the UK

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 2241-2248

  Doumith, M ^a   Findlay, J ^a   Hirani, H ^a   Hopkins, K L ^a   Livermore, D M ^a,b   Dodgson, A ^c   Woodford, N ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c Public Health Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; NUCLEOTIDE; TIGECYCLINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBAPENEMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEUS; PROVIDENCIA; SALMONELLA; UNITED KINGDOM; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85027122409     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkx141     Document Type: Article

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