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Multiple mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: our worst nightmare?
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Mar 2002
Livermore David M
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa carries multiresistance plasmids less often than does Klebsiella pneumoniae, develops mutational resistance to cephalosporins less readily than Enterobacter species, and has less inherent resistance than Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. What nevertheless makes P. aeruginosa uniquely problematic is a combination of the following: the species' inherent resistance to many drug classes; its...
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