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Prevalence of CTX-M beta-lactamases in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2009
McGettigan Shannon E, Hu Baofeng, Andreacchio Kathleen, Nachamkin Irving, Edelstein Paul H
Abstract excerpt
CTX-M beta-lactamases were thought to be rare in the United States, but a recent study in Texas showed that up to 70% of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-containing members of the Enterobacteriaceae family were CTX-M positive (J. S. Lewis, M. Herrera, B. Wickes, J. E. Patterson, and J. H. Jorgensen, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 51:4015-4021, 2007). We used PCR to detect CTX-M in all 291 extended-spectrum...
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