… producing an extended spectrum b-lactamase have become a … Extended-spectrum b-lactamase
(ESBL) detection tests … b-lactams, eg, broadspectrum b-lactamases, inhibitor-resistant …

… outbreak of extended-spectrum b-lactamase–producing … Risk factors in the acquisition of
extendedspectrum b-lactamase … in b lactamases and extended spectrum b lactamases. BMJ …

… detecting ESBL producers are based on the determination of susceptibility to expanded-spectrum …
Automated methods for bacterial identification and susceptibility testing are also used …

… contemporary broad-spectrum beta-lactams, mediated by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase
(… for detecting or validating the presence of enteric bacilli potentially producing this type of …

… Detection of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in Klebsiellae with the Oxoid
combination … Detection of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in members of the family …

… Three commercially available microbiology identification and susceptibility testing systems
were compared with regard to their ability to detect extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) …

… to assess their ability to detect extended-spectrum ß-lactamases (ESBLs) in members of
the … involving detection of ESBLs in 157 strains possessing well-characterized ß-lactamases, …

… -lactam activity (4). Other ESBLs have greater relative oxyimino-β… lactam activity but
pay a price for their expanded spectrum in lower intrinsic enzyme efficiency (2). A strong β-lactamase …

… In a survey of detection of ESBLs in clinical isolates15 found that only 18% of laboratories
… expandedspectrum β-lactam antibiotics as the method of detection. However, none of the …

Extended spectrum β-lactamase enzymes (ESBLs) are enzymes that have the ability to
hydrolyze oxyiminocephalosporins and infections by isolates producing them are often difficult to …