NDM-1 Hazard in the Balkan States: Evidence of the First Outbreak of NDM-1-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Bulgaria

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 253-259

  Savov, Encho ^a   Politi, Lida ^b   Spanakis, Nicholas ^b   Trifonova, Angelina ^a   Kioseva, Elena ^a   Tsakris, Athanasios ^b  

^a MILITARY MEDICAL ACADEMY   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

clonal type; NDM carbapenemase; outbreak; sequence type

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE CMY 4; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M 15; BETA LACTAMASE NDM 1; BETA LACTAMASE OXA 1; BETA LACTAMASE OXA 2; BETA LACTAMASE TEM 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA-LACTAMASE NDM-1; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BALKAN PENINSULA; BULGARIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW DELHI MBL 1 CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CELL CLONE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; BULGARIA; CARBAPENEMS; CLONE CELLS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMIDS;

EID: 85045463497     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2017.0230     Document Type: Article

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