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Outer membrane protein alterations and blaTEM-1 variants: their role in beta-lactam resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2003
Nelson E C, Segal Heidi, Elisha B Gay
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OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to characterize the genetic basis of resistance to selected beta-lactam antibiotics in two clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae. METHODS AND RESULTS: K. pneumoniae strains were isolated from two hospitalized patients. One of the strains was resistant to amoxicillin, co-amoxiclav, cefuroxime, piperacillin and cefoxitin but susceptible to all the other cephalosporins...
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