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SUBMITTER: Hong DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4495280 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hong Duck Jin DJ Bae Il Kwon IK Jang In-Ho IH Jeong Seok Hoon SH Kang Hyun-Kyung HK Lee Kyungwon K
Infection & chemotherapy 20150630 2
Metallo-β-lactamase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MPPA) is an important nosocomial pathogen that shows resistance to all β-lactam antibiotics except monobactams. There are various types of metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) in carbapenem-resistant P. aeruginosa including Imipenemase (IMP), Verona integron-encoded metallo-β-lactamase (VIM), Sao Paulo metallo-β-lactamase (SPM), Germany imipenemase (GIM), New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM), Florence imipenemase (FIM). Each MBL gene is located on spec ...[more]