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Metallo- <i>β</i> -Lactamase VIM-2 in Clinical Isolates of <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> from Portugal
1 Jun 2002
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Resistance to carbapenems is emerging, and it is a great problem to therapeutics. Three isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from a Portuguese hospital identified in urine and sputum, in 1995, presented a high-level resistance to imipenem (> 32 mg/L). Afterward, one isolate of P. aeruginosa recovered from urine of an ambulatory patient in 1998 showed high resistance to imipenem and meropenem. The resistance to...
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