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[Interpretive reading of the non-fermenting gram-negative bacilli antibiogram].
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica - 1 Dec 2010
Vila Jordi, Marco Francesc
Abstract excerpt
Among non-fermenting Gram-negative rods, the most clinically important species are Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, which are frequently multiresistant. P. aeruginosa resistance to beta-lactams depends on the production of chromosomal and plasmid-mediated beta-lactamases, altered permeability (loss of OprD porin is related to carbapenem-resistance) and active...
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