Prevalence of beta-lactamases among 1,072 clinical strains of Proteus mirabilis: a 2-year survey in a French hospital.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
; 44(7): 1930-5, 2000 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
beta-Lactam resistance was studied in 1,072 consecutive P. mirabilis clinical strains isolated at the Clermont-Ferrand teaching hospital between April 1996 and March 1998. The frequency of amoxicillin resistance was 48.5%. Among the 520 amoxicillin-resistant isolates, three resistance phenotypes were detected penicillinase (407 strains [78.3%]), extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (74 strains [14. 2%]), and inhibitor resistance (39 strains [7.5%]). The penicillinase phenotype isolates were divided into three groups according to the level of resistance to beta-lactams, which was shown to be related to the strength of the promoter. The characterization of the different beta-lactamases showed that amoxicillin resistance in P. mirabilis was almost always (97%) associated with TEM or TEM-derived beta-lactamases, most of which evolved via TEM-2.
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Proteus mirabilis
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Beta-Lactamases
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En
Ano de publicação:
2000
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