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. 2000 Mar;38(3):1290-2.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.38.3.1290-1292.2000.

Outbreak of infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa producing VIM-1 carbapenemase in Greece

A Tsakris  1 , S Pournaras, N Woodford, M F Palepou, G S Babini, J Douboyas, D M Livermore
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Outbreak of infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa producing VIM-1 carbapenemase in Greece

A Tsakris et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2000 Mar.

Abstract

Resistance to imipenem and meropenem was observed in 211 (16.5%) isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa recovered in a Greek university hospital during 1996 to 1998. In six isolates selected from throughout this period, high-level resistance to both carbapenems (MICs >/= 128 microg/ml) was associated with production of the class B beta-lactamase VIM-1. bla(VIM)-bearing isolates belonged to serotype O:12 and were indistinguishable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.

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