The emergence of antibiotic resistance has significantly elevated the threat posed by Acinetobacter baumannii as an opportunistic pathogen. A.baumannii, a notorious bacterium, poses a serious threat to health care, leading to severe nosocomial infections, particularly in immunocompromised individuals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNocardia farcinica is the leading pathogen responsible for nocardiosis, a life-threatening infection primarily affecting immunocompromised patients. In this study, the genomic sequence of a clinically isolated N. farcinica sample was sequenced.
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October 2019
The most common group of ESBLs not belonging to the bla TEM or bla SHV families were termed bla CTX-M , to highlight their ESBLs' greater activity against cefotaxime than against ceftazidime. The presence of nosocomial bla CTX-M-28 -producing Enterobacteriaceae strains has not been reported earlier in Indian hospitals. The sequences of bla CTX-M-28 gene from cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae were analyzed.
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