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Italian metallo-beta-lactamases: a national problem? Report from the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2005
Toleman Mark A, Biedenbach Doug, Bennett David M C, Jones Ronald N, Walsh Timothy R
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OBJECTIVES: As part of the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme, 383 non-replicative randomly collected Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates were collected during 1999-2002. These strains originated from three geographically distinct hospitals within Italy: Genoa (Northern Italy); Rome and Catania (Sicily), and were further studied to identify the prevalence of metallo-beta-lactamase (MbetaL) alleles across...
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