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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
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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 distributio...
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