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[Prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae from Daejeon].
The Korean journal of laboratory medicine - 1 Oct 2007
Ko Chi Seon, Sung Ji Yun, Koo Sun Hoe, Kwon Gye Cheol, Shin So Yeon, Park Jong Woo
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) are cephalosporinases that confer resistance to a wide variety of oxyimino cephalosporins and create serious therapeutic problems. Although ESBLs have been reported with increasing frequency in Korea, their prevalence and genotypic distribution in Daejeon remain unknown. This study was designed to evaluate the occurrence and genotypic distributions of...
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