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SUBMITTER: Villegas MV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1346812 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20060101 1
Carbapenem resistance rates in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in Colombia, as in many South American countries, are high for reasons that remain unclear. From our nationwide network, we describe the first detection of the metallo-beta-lactamase VIM-2 in clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa from multiple cities within Colombia. Metallo-beta-lactamases were not detected in the two centers with the highest imipenem resistance rates. Clonality was noted in five of the eight centers with strains meeti ...[more]