Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of Carbapenem-Heteroresistant <i>Bacteroides fragilis</i> Strains

• Main Authors: Zain Baaity (Author), Friederike D. von Loewenich (Author), Elisabeth Nagy (Author), László Orosz (Author), Katalin Burián (Author), Ferenc Somogyvári (Author), József Sóki (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Carbapenem-resistant <i>Bacteroides fragilis</i> strains usually emerge by an insertion sequence (IS) jump into the upstream region of the <i>cfiA</i> carbapenemase gene. However, intermediate or fully resistant <i>cfiA</i>-positive strains also exist. These do no...