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Integron carrying a novel metallo-beta-lactamase gene, blaIMP-16, and a fused form of aminoglycoside-resistant gene aac(6')-30/aac(6')-Ib': report from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2004
Mendes Rodrigo E, Toleman Mark A, Ribeiro Julival, Sader Helio S, Jones Ronald N, Walsh Timothy R
Abstract excerpt
Since January 2002 Pseudomonas sp. strains resistant to carbapenems and ceftazidime have been routinely screened as part of the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program for metallo-beta-lactamase production, and their resistance determinants have been analyzed. Pseudomonas aeruginosa index strain 101-4704, which harbors a novel bla(IMP) variant, bla(IMP-16), was isolated in April 2002 from a 60-year-old man in...
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