Serratia Infections: from Military Experiments to Current Practice
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...S. marcescens is an opportunistic pathogen causing clinical diseases such as urinary tract infections and pneumonia (Mahlen, 2011)....
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...marcescens have been reported to be Carbapenem-resistant [17]....
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...Importantly, some clinical isolates of S.marcescens have been reported to be Carbapenem-resistant [17]....
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...Serratia marcescens is an opportunistic pathogen which can infect diverse organisms and is responsible for many hospital acquired infections [37, 38]....
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...Tetracycline and minocycline are substrates for TetB, but the other pumps primarily transport tetracycline (73)....
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...S. marcescens strains most commonly carry CTX-M-type ESBLs (69, 196, 218, 273, 284, 293, 295, 414, 421) but have also been found carrying SHV (218, 281, 284, 295), TEM (218, 284, 295), and a novel ESBL, BES-1 (42)....
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...A survey of S. marcescens isolates from 2006 to 2009 in Mexico revealed that 20.5% were ESBL producers, and all of the ESBLs were SHV-type enzymes (143)....
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...In a study from Thailand, 24.1% of S. marcescens isolates recovered from 2006 to 2007 were ESBL producers; the isolates carried mixtures of CTX-M-, SHV-, and TEM-type enzymes (218)....
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...%) carried CTX-M-type enzymes, while the rest produced SHV-type ESBLs....
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...The ESBLs are plasmid-mediated enzymes that have activity against the narrow-, expanded-, and broad-spectrum cephalosporins, the penicillins, and aztreonam (300)....
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