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Oxacillinase-mediated resistance to cefepime and susceptibility to ceftazidime in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Jun 2001
Aubert D, Poirel L, Chevalier J, Leotard S, Pages J M, Nordmann P
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolate SOF-1 was resistant to cefepime and susceptible to ceftazidime. This resistance phenotype was explained by the expression of OXA-31, which shared 98% amino acid identity with a class D beta-lactamase, OXA-1. The oxa-31 gene was located on a ca. 300-kb nonco...
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