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Prevalence of carbapenem-hydrolyzing OXA-type β-lactamases among Acinetobacter baumannii in patients with severe urinary tract infection.
Acta microbiologica et immunologica Hungarica - 9 Dec 2019
Girija Smiline As, Priyadharsini Jayaseelan Vijayashree, Paramasivam Arumugam
Abstract excerpt
Acinetobacter baumannii produces carbapenemase-hydrolyzing class D β-lactamases (CHDLs) as one of the major drug resistance mechanisms. This investigation is thus aimed to assess the prevalence and to characterize the CHDL-producing strains of A. baumannii by both phenotypic assays and genotypic characterization. A total of 73 isolates of A. baumannii were phenotypically and genotypically characterized from...
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