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[Interpretive reading of enterobacteria antibiograms].
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica - 1 Nov 2010
Navarro Ferran, Miró Elisenda, Mirelis Beatriz
Abstract excerpt
The resistance pattern observed in the antibiogram of an isolate should be the sum of its natural resistance pattern, characteristic of the species, plus the acquired resistances. In Enterobacteriaceae, the production of inactivating enzymes is the main mechanism of resistance to beta-lactams and aminoglycosides. Each one of these enzymes recognizes one or more specific beta-lactams or aminoglycosides as...
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