Effect of Meropenem Concentration on the Detection of Low Numbers of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2015 Nov 9;60(1):712-3. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01904-15. Print 2016 Jan.

Authors

Windy D Tanner¹, Robyn M Atkinson², Ramesh K Goel³, Christina A Porucznik⁴, Lowell Scott Benson⁴, James A VanDerslice⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Utah Division of Public Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA windy.tanner@hsc.utah.edu.
² Utah Public Health Laboratory, Taylorsville, Utah, USA.
³ University of Utah Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
⁴ University of Utah Division of Public Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
Bacterial Load
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Enterobacteriaceae / drug effects*
Enterobacteriaceae / enzymology
Enterobacteriaceae / genetics
Enterobacteriaceae / isolation & purification
Enterobacteriaceae Infections / microbiology
Gene Expression
Humans
Meropenem
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Thienamycins / pharmacology*
beta-Lactam Resistance / genetics*
beta-Lactamases / genetics*
beta-Lactamases / metabolism

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Thienamycins
beta-Lactamases
Meropenem

Grants and funding

This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.