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VEB-1-like extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Kuwait
L Poirel1, V O Rotimi, E M Mokaddas
1Faculté de Médecine Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|June 1, 2001
Abstract:
Two clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from patients in intensive care units in Kuwait were resistant to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins and showed a synergistic effect between ceftazidime and clavulanic acid. This is the first report of extended-spectrum enzymes from nosocomial isolates from the Middle East.