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Molecular characterization of a beta-lactamase gene, blaGIM-1, encoding a new subclass of metallo-beta-lactamase.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2004
Castanheira Mariana, Toleman Mark A, Jones Ronald N, Schmidt Franz J, Walsh Timothy R
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As part of the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program in 2002, five multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates were detected with metallo-beta-lactamase (MbetaL) activity. The isolates were recovered from different patients in a medical center located in Dusseldorf, Germany. The resistant determinant was isolated amplifying the region between the integrase and the aacA4 gene cassette....
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