Associations between Carbapenem Use, Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
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To the editor: We read with interest the paper of Hrabák et al. [1] on the isolation of a blaNDM-1-carrying Acinetobacter baumannii strain. However, although the authors believed to be the first in the Czech Republic to report on a New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1)-producing bacterium, there have been other reports on the same A. baumannii strain in the country [2,3]. Here, we would li...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1086/673460