Genomic analysis of hospital plumbing reveals diverse reservoir of bacterial plasmids conferring carbapenem resistance

mBio

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Weingarten, Rebecca A ^a   Johnson, Ryan C ^b   Conlan, Sean ^b   Ramsburg, Amanda M ^a   Dekker, John P ^a   Lau, Anna F ^a   Khil, Pavel ^a   Odom, Robin T ^a   Deming, Clay ^b   Park, Morgan ^c   Thomas, Pamela J ^c   Henderson, David K ^a   Palmore, Tara N ^a   Segre, Julia A ^b   Frank, Karen M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Carbapenem resistant; Carbapenemase producing organisms; Environment; Infection control; Plasmid mediated resistanceplumbing; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; GENOMIC DNA; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE;

AEROMONAS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL; HOUSEKEEPING; INTENSIVE CARE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ANALYSIS; CARBAPENEM-RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; SANITATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEM-RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; PLASMIDS; PREVALENCE; SANITARY ENGINEERING; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85043511238     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02011-17     Document Type: Article

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