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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 5, Pages 1961-1964Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02321-10
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Carbapenem resistance in Bacteroides fragilis is associated with cfiA-encoded class B metallo-beta-lactamase. cfiA-negative and cfiA-positive isolates belong to genotypically distinct groups. Of a total of 248 B. fragilis isolates included in this study, 214 were susceptible, 10 were intermediate, and 24 were resistant to meropenem. We show that matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry is able to differentiate between cfiA-negative and cfiA-positive isolates and predict carbapenem resistance in a routine laboratory setting.
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