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SUBMITTER: Correa A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4356786 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Correa Adriana A Del Campo Rosa R Perenguez Marcela M Blanco Victor M VM Rodríguez-Baños Mercedes M Perez Federico F Maya Juan J JJ Rojas Laura L Cantón Rafael R Arias Cesar A CA Villegas Maria V MV
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20150120 4
The ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to develop resistance to most antimicrobials represents an important clinical threat worldwide. We report the dissemination in several Colombian hospitals of two predominant lineages of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) carbapenemase-producing P. aeruginosa strains. These lineages belong to the high-risk clones sequence type 111 (ST111) and ST235 and harbor blaVIM-2 on a class 1 integron and blaKPC-2 on a Tn4401 transposon, respectively. Additionally, P. aeru ...[more]