DETERMINATION OF ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITIES OF CANADIAN ISOLATES OF HAEMOPHILUS-INFLUENZAE AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THEIR BETA-LACTAMASES

Authors
SCRIVER SR WALMSLEY SL KAU CL HOBAN DJ BRUNTON J MCGEER A MOORE TC WITWICKI E ABBOTT LP ALFA M ANAND D ANDERSON J BERGERON MG BLONDEAU J CLARKE AM DIAZMITOMA F FORWARD K GREGSON D HORSMEN GB JESSAMINE P KIBSEY P KUHN M LAVADIERE M MARTIN T MCDONALD JC MCNAUGHTON RD SMITH J ZOUTMAN D LOW DE
Citation
Sr. Scriver et al., DETERMINATION OF ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITIES OF CANADIAN ISOLATES OF HAEMOPHILUS-INFLUENZAE AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THEIR BETA-LACTAMASES, Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 38(7), 1994, pp. 1678-1680
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Pharmacology & Pharmacy",Microbiology
Journal title
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy → ACNP
ISSN journal
00664804
Volume
38
Issue
7
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1678 - 1680
Database
ISI
SICI code
0066-4804(1994)38:7<1678:DOASOC>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Susceptibility testing of 1,688 Haemophilus influenzae isolates found 484 ampicillin-resistant strains; 474 strains (28.4%) were beta-lactam ase positive, and 5 strains (0.4%) were non-beta-lactamase producers. Restriction enzyme digestion of the beta-lactamase amplicon determined that, of 157 strains, 11 (7.0%) contained ROB-1 beta-lactamase and 14 6 (93.0%) contained a TEM-type beta-lactamase.