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[Integrons and their relationship with resistance phenotype in Gram negative bacilli isolated in the Hospital Torres Galdames, Iquique, Chile].
Revista chilena de infectologia : organo oficial de la Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia - 1 Oct 2007
Moraga M Rubén, Santander P Edgardo, Arias C Teresa, Méndez A Fermín
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UNLABELLED: The antimicrobial resistance is coded in genetic elements which generate a horizontal flow of information, particularly in conditions that are under strong selective pressure like the nosocomial environment. In that sense, in the last decades, gram negative bacilli have become important agents of nosocomial infection. In order to investigate the presence of integrons among clinical isolates of gram...
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