Integron carrying a novel metallo-β-lactamase gene, bla IMP-16, and a fused form of aminoglycoside-resistant gene aac(6′)-30/aac(6′)-Ib′: Report from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 4693-4702

  Mendes, Rodrigo E ^a   Toleman, Mark A ^b   Ribeiro, Julival ^c   Sader, Helio S ^a,d   Jones, Ronald N ^d,e   Walsh, Timothy R ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL DE BASE DO DISTRITO FEDERAL   (Brazil)

^d JONES Group JMI Laboratories   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; MEROPENEM; NEOMYCIN; NETILMICIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SISOMICIN; TICARCILLIN; TIMENTIN; TOBRAMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENE FUSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS KINETICS; INTEGRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEADY STATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; INTEGRONS; KINETICS; LATIN AMERICA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 9644302496     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.12.4693-4702.2004     Document Type: Article

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