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SUBMITTER: Wolter DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2663076 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wolter Daniel J DJ Khalaf Noha N Robledo Iraida E IE Vázquez Guillermo J GJ Santé Maria I MI Aquino Edna E EE Goering Richard V RV Hanson Nancy D ND
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20090202 4
During a 6-month period, 37/513 (7.2%) Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates belonging to 13 pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) groups from Puerto Rican hospitals were carbapenem nonsusceptible. Seven of 37 isolates from four PFGE groups carried bla(IMP-18), and 25/37 isolates from seven PFGE groups carried bla(KPC). The results indicated the clonal spread of bla(KPC)-positive P. aeruginosa isolates into several Puerto Rican hospitals and the dissemination of bla(IMP-18) and bla(KPC) into genetic ...[more]