Metallo-beta-lactamases of Pseudomonas aeruginosa--a novel mechanism resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics.

Since about twenty years, following the introduction into therapeutic of news beta-lactam antibiotics (broad-spectrum cephalosporins, monobactams and carbapenems), a very significant number of new beta-lactamases appeared. These enzymes confer to the bacteria which put them, the means of resisting n...

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Main Authors: Dorota Olszańska, Marcin Zórawski, Tomasz Hauschild, Piotr Wieczorek, Paweł Sacha, Elzbieta Tryniszewska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Via Medica 2008-06-01
Series:Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica
Online Access:http://czasopisma.viamedica.pl/fhc/article/view/4440