Development and Validation of a Novel Anaerobic Carbapenem Inactivation Method (Ana-CIM) for the Detection of Carbapenemase Production in Bacteroides fragilis
Journal of Clinical Microbiology | March 22, 2022 | Volume: 60 | Issue: 4 | Pages: No page available
Antibiotic resistance, particularly to carbapenems, is of increasing concern in Bacteroides fragilis . Carbapenem resistance in B. fragilis is most often mediated by the activation of chromosomally encoded metallo-β-lactamase cfiA by the presence of an upstream insertion sequence (IS).