Environmental KPC-producing Escherichia coli isolates in Portugal

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2012 Mar;56(3):1662-3. doi: 10.1128/AAC.05850-11. Epub 2011 Dec 27.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / metabolism
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
  • Bacterial Typing Techniques
  • Carbapenems / metabolism
  • Carbapenems / pharmacology*
  • DNA Transposable Elements
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics
  • Enterobacteriaceae Infections / drug therapy
  • Enterobacteriaceae Infections / microbiology
  • Escherichia coli / drug effects
  • Escherichia coli / isolation & purification
  • Escherichia coli / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Klebsiella pneumoniae / drug effects
  • Klebsiella pneumoniae / isolation & purification
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Multilocus Sequence Typing
  • Plasmids
  • Portugal
  • Rivers / microbiology
  • Water Microbiology*
  • beta-Lactam Resistance
  • beta-Lactamases / genetics*
  • beta-Lactamases / metabolism

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Carbapenems
  • DNA Transposable Elements
  • DNA, Bacterial
  • beta-Lactamases