%0 Journal Article
%T Detec£¿£¿o de metalo-beta-lactamase em Pseudomonas aeruginosa isoladas de pacientes hospitalizados em Goiania, Estado de Goi¨¢s
%A Gon£¿alves
%A Diana Christina Pereira Santos
%A Lima
%A Ana Beatriz Mori
%A Le£¿o
%A Lara Stefania Netto de Oliveira
%A Carmo Filho
%A Jos¨¦ Rodrigues do
%A Pimenta
%A Fabiana Cristina
%A Vieira
%A Jos¨¦ Daniel Gon£¿alves
%J Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
%D 2009
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT
%R 10.1590/S0037-86822009000400010
%X pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacterium frequently isolated from hospital environments. this study had the aims of evaluating the susceptibility profile of pseudomonas aeruginosa previously isolated from patients in a hospital in goiania (goi¨¢s, brazil), performing phenotypic screening for metallo-beta-lactamase production and detecting its genes using the polymerase chain reaction technique. seventy-five 75 pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates were evaluated between january 2005 and january 2007. biochemical identification was performed using the api 20e£¿ system and an antibiogram was produced using the kirby-bauer method. among the 62 isolates that were resistant to imipenem and ceftazidime, 35 (56.4%) produced metallo-beta-lactamase, while 26 (74.3%) showed the blaspm-1 gene. the frequency of pseudomonas aeruginosa that produces metallo-beta-lactamase suggests that greater control over the dissemination of resistance in hospital environments is needed.
%K pseudomonas aeruginosa
%K metallo-beta-lactamase
%K nosocomial infection
%K carbapenems
%K multiresistance.
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