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Prevalence of the carbapenem-heteroresistant phenotype among ESBL-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jun 2020
Tan Karen, Nguyen James, Nguyen Kevin, Huse Holly K, Nieberg Paul H, Wong-Beringer Annie
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OBJECTIVES: Carbapenem-heteroresistant (cHR) Enterobacteriaceae strains have been reported worldwide; however, the prevalence among clinical ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates obtained from patients with repeated hospital admissions remains largely unknown. METHODS: Heteroresistance was screened by disc diffusion and confirmed by a modified population analysis profiling (PAP) method against ertapenem,...
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