Beta-lactamases in laboratory and clinical resistance

DM Livermore - Clinical microbiology reviews, 1995 - Am Soc Microbiol
… permeability of the producer strain. beta-Lactamases sometimes cause obvious resistance to
… of the prevalent beta-lactamases to cause resistance to widely used beta-lactams, whether …

Recent developments in β-lactamase research and their implications for the future

K Bush - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1988 - academic.oup.com
… Control of ~-lactamase activity in the growing cell is another … of ~ lactamases in the
development of resistant strains. In this … biochemist's approach with the clinical microbiologist's …

New β-lactamase inhibitors in the clinic

KM Papp-Wallace, RA Bonomo - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2016 - id.theclinics.com
… This debated question is addressed and the novel β-lactam-β-lactamasestrains that
carry multiple different classes of β-lactamases is to switch the β-lactam partner of a clinically

OXA-24, a Novel Class D β-Lactamase with Carbapenemase Activity in an Acinetobacter baumanniiClinical Strain

G Bou, A Oliver, J Martínez-Beltrán - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
… The OXA-24 β-lactamase hydrolyzed benzylpenicillin and cephaloridine but lacked activity
… extract of this transformant strain. Therefore, we consider this new β-lactamase to be involved …

Presence of different beta-lactamase classes among clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa expressing AmpC beta-lactamase enzyme

S Upadhyay, MR Sen, A Bhattacharjee - The journal of infection in …, 2010 - jidc.org
… betalactamase mediated resistance to most of the beta-lactam … isolate that expresses multiple
βlactamase enzymes, further … spectrum beta-lactamase( ESBL) status of these strains was …

TEM-1 β-lactamase as a source of resistance to sulbactam in clinical strains of Acinetobacter baumannii

L Krizova, L Poirel, P Nordmann… - Journal of Antimicrobial …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
… The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that β-lactamase TEM-1 is responsible for …
the 17 clinical strains. The MICs of sulbactam and other β-lactams for these strains are shown …

Novel Variant (blaVIM-4) of the Metallo-β-Lactamase Gene blaVIM-1 in a Clinical Strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

S Pournaras, A Tsakris, M Maniati… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
strains that produce acquired class B metallo-β-lactamases (… Although these β-lactamase
types share less than 40% amino … VIM-1 MBL gene, found in a clinical strain of P. aeruginosa. …

Clinical role of β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations

N Lee, KY Yuen, CR Kumana - Drugs, 2003 - Springer
… coli and Proteus mirabilis strains that encode for inhibitor-resistant β-lactamases (IRT) or …
or sulbactam against IRT strains.[5] Despite the limitations of β-lactam/inhibitor combinations in …

Molecular Mechanisms of β-Lactam Resistance Mediated by AmpC Hyperproduction in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Clinical Strains

C Juan, MD Maciá, O Gutiérrez, C Vidal… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
… AmpC (β-lactamase activities were 12- to 657-fold higher than those of the parent strains), but
… frequent mechanism of AmpC hyperproduction in clinical strains, our findings suggest that …

Clinical significance of beta-lactamase induction and stable derepression in gram-negative rods

DM Livermore - European journal of clinical microbiology, 1987 - Springer
… Most strains of enterobacteria andPseudomonas aeruginosa produce chromosomally-… -lactamases.
When synthesized copiously these enzymes cause resistance to almost allβ-lactams, …