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Prevalence and types of class 1 integrons in aminoglycoside-resistant Enterobacteriaceae from several Chilean hospitals
14 Jan 2003
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Members of the family Enterobacteriaceae are responsible for a variety of nosocomial infections, treatment of which is limited due to their increasing resistance to antibiotics. Some bacterial genes encoding antibiotic resistance comprise the major part of gene cassettes, most of which are associated with integrons. In this work, the carriage of class 1, 2 and 3 integrons was investigated in 191...
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