Emerging bacterial pathogens: Escherichia coli, Enterobacter aerogenes and Proteus mirabilis clinical isolates harbouring the same transferable plasmid coding for metallo-beta-lactamase VIM-1 in Greece

Autor: Irene Galani, Maria Souli, Zoi Chryssouli, Evangelos Koratzanis, Helen Giamarellou, George Koratzanis
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy. 59(3)
ISSN: 0305-7453
Popis: carbapenemases, Enterobacteriaceae*Correspondence address. Fourth Department of InternalMedicine, University General Hospital ‘ATTIKON’, Rimini 1,124 62 Chaidari, Greece. Tel: þ32105326426; Fax:þ32105326446; E-mail: hgiama@ath.forthnet.grSir,Until now, there have been only a few reports on the productionof VIM-type metallo-b-lactamases (MBLs) in members of thefamily Enterobacteriaceae.
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