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Isolation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Coproducing Metallo-β-Lactamase SPM-1 and 16S rRNA Methylase RmtD1 in an Urban River
5 Apr 2011
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa (strain 48-1997A) producing Sao Paulo metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL)-1 (SPM-1) was described for the first time in 1997 and came from a 4-year-old leukemic girl in Sao Paulo, Brazil (15). Since then, SPM-1-producing P. aeruginosa has become endemic in Brazilian hospitals, being recurrently associated with outbreaks of nosocomial infection (8, 11, 12). More recently, the first reports of the...
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