Prevalence of faecal carriage of Enterobacteriaceae with NDM-1 carbapenemase at military hospitals in Pakistan, and evaluation of two chromogenic media
Author(s) -
John D. Perry,
S. Habib Naqvi,
Irfan Ali Mirza,
Shehla Ambreen Alizai,
Aamir Hussain,
Sandrine Ghirardi,
Sylvain Orenga,
K. Wilkinson,
Neil Woodford,
J. Zhang,
David M. Livermore,
S. Abbasi,
Muhammad W. Raza
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkr299
Subject(s) - chromogenic , carriage , enterobacteriaceae , medicine , isolation (microbiology) , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , escherichia coli , pathology , biochemistry , gene , art , visual arts
To determine the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae among hospitalized patients and outpatients attending two military hospitals in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and to compare the performance of two chromogenic culture media for the isolation of these organisms.
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