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Metallo-beta-lactamase detection: comparative evaluation of double-disk synergy versus combined disk tests for IMP-, GIM-, SIM-, SPM-, or VIM-producing isolates.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2008
Picão Renata C, Andrade Soraya S, Nicoletti Adriana Gianinni, Campana Eloiza H, Moraes Gabriela C, Mendes Rodrigo E, Gales Ana C
Abstract excerpt
The emergence of metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL)-producing isolates is a challenge to routine microbiology laboratories, since there are no standardized methods for detecting such isolates. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of different phenotypic methods to detect MBL production among Pseudomonas spp., Acinetobacter spp., and enterobacterial isolates, including GIM, IMP, SIM, SPM, and VIM variants....
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