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SUBMITTER: Hocquet D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3122726 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hocquet Didier D Dehecq Barbara B Bertrand Xavier X Plésiat Patrick P
Journal of clinical microbiology 20110330 6
The prevalence of class D extended-spectrum oxacillinases (ES-OXAs) in ceftazidime-resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is often underestimated by double-disk synergy tests (DDST) using clavulanate. A DDST with a customized distance between a disk of ceftazidime or cefepime and inhibitors (clavulanate and imipenem) detected 14 out of 15 different ES-OXAs. ...[more]