Could Acinetobacter pittii act as an NDM-1 reservoir for Enterobacteriaceae?

J Antimicrob Chemother. 2013 Oct;68(10):2414-5. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkt201. Epub 2013 Jun 3.

Authors

Pierre Bogaerts¹, Te-Din Huang, Roberta Rezende de Castro, Warda Bouchahrouf, Youri Glupczynski

Affiliation

¹ National Reference Centre for Antibiotic Resistance in Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter spp., CHU UCL Mont-Godinne-Dinant, Yvoir, Belgium.

PMID: 23732698
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkt201

No abstract available

Keywords: carbapenemases; non-fermenters; plasmids; type IV secretion systems.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Acinetobacter / enzymology*
Acinetobacter / genetics*
Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
DNA Transposable Elements
Enterobacteriaceae / enzymology*
Enterobacteriaceae / genetics*
Gene Order
Gene Transfer, Horizontal*
Humans
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
beta-Lactam Resistance
beta-Lactamases / genetics*
beta-Lactamases / metabolism*
beta-Lactams / pharmacology

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
DNA Transposable Elements
beta-Lactams
beta-Lactamases
beta-lactamase NDM-1