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Spread of Metallo-β-lactamases: screening reveals the presence of aBLA(SPM-1) gene in hospital sewage in southern Brazil

Of 396 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from hospital sewage, the blaSPM-1 gene was confirmed in nine. This is the first report of environmental P. aeruginosa strains carrying the blaSPM-1 gene in Brazil. The carbapenem resistance, already disseminated among clinical isolates, has been detect...

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Autores principales: Fuentefria, Daiane Bopp, Ferreira, Alessandra Einsfeld, Gräf, Tiago, Corção, Gertrudes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24031322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1517-838220090001000013