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Membrane-Bound PenA β-Lactamase of Burkholderia pseudomallei.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 28 Dec 2015
Randall Linnell B, Dobos Karen, Papp-Wallace Krisztina M, Bonomo Robert A, Schweizer Herbert P
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Burkholderia pseudomallei is the etiologic agent of melioidosis, a difficult-to-treat disease with diverse clinical manifestations. β-Lactam antibiotics such as ceftazidime are crucial to the success of melioidosis therapy. Ceftazidime-resistant clinical isolates have been described, and the most common mechanism is point mutations affecting expression or critical amino acid residues of the chromosomally encoded...
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