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SUBMITTER: Pestana-Nobles R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8836116 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pestana-Nobles Roberto R Aranguren-Díaz Yani Y Machado-Sierra Elwi E Yosa Juvenal J Galan-Freyle Nataly J NJ Sepulveda-Montaño Laura X LX Kuroda Daniel G DG Pacheco-Londoño Leonardo C LC
International journal of molecular sciences 20220131 3
Bacterial resistance is responsible for a wide variety of health problems, both in children and adults. The persistence of symptoms and infections are mainly treated with β-lactam antibiotics. The increasing resistance to those antibiotics by bacterial pathogens generated the emergence of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs), an actual public health problem. This is due to rapid mutations of bacteria when exposed to antibiotics. In this case, β-lactamases are enzymes used by bacteria to hydrol ...[more]