The Brief Case: IMP, the Uncommonly Common Carbapenemase

Christopher F Lowe^{1

2}, Nancy Matic^{3

2}, Sylvie Champagne^{3

2}, Marc G Romney^{3

2}, Victor Leung^{3

2}, Gordon Ritchie^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Microbiology and Virology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada clowe@providencehealth.bc.ca.
² Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Division of Microbiology and Virology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Case Reports

Christopher F Lowe et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 25;58(4):e01094-19.

doi: 10.1128/JCM.01094-19. Print 2020 Mar 25.

Christopher F Lowe^{1

2}, Nancy Matic^{3

2}, Sylvie Champagne^{3

2}, Marc G Romney^{3

2}, Victor Leung^{3

2}, Gordon Ritchie^{3

2}

¹ Division of Microbiology and Virology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada clowe@providencehealth.bc.ca.
² Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Division of Microbiology and Virology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: IMP; IMP-27; carbapenemase.

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