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Resistance to beta-lactams among blood isolates of Salmonella spp. in European hospitals: results from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program 1997-98
- Source :
- Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 9(2), 149-152. ELSEVIER SCI LTD
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- The susceptibility to beta -lactams and the beta -lactamase content of 110 Salmonella spp. blood isolates collected during 1997-98 in 19 European centers participating in the SENTRY Surveillance Program were studied. Thirty-one isolates (28%) were resistant to penicillins, due to production of TEM-1 (27 isolates), OXA-1 (three isolates) or TEM-1 + OXA-1 (one isolate). All OXA-1 producers and 10 TEM-1-producing isolates were also resistant to penicillin-clavulanic acid combinations. In the latter isolates, this phenotype was associated with increased production of TEM-1. Sixteen TEM-1-producing Salmonella Enteritidis isolates and one OXA-1-producing S. Typhimurium isolate were able to transfer beta -lactam resistance by conjugation.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1198743X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 9(2), 149-152. ELSEVIER SCI LTD
- Accession number :
- edsair.narcis........fe426bf4a0a6f4e6a8c07f92789a77d9