Simple Screening for Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae by Moxalactam Susceptibility Testing

J Clin Microbiol. 2017 Jul;55(7):2276-2279. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00606-17. Epub 2017 May 3.

Waka Imai¹, Masakazu Sasaki¹, Kotaro Aoki², Yoshikazu Ishii³, Robert A Bonomo^{4

5

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7}, Tse Hsien Koh⁸, Hinako Murakami¹, Toshisuke Morita^{1

9}, Kazuhiro Tateda^{1

2}

¹ Department of Clinical Laboratories, Toho University Omori Medical Centre, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan yishii@med.toho-u.ac.jp.
⁴ Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁵ Research Service, Louis Stokes Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁷ Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁸ Department of Microbiology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
⁹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

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Keywords: carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae; detection; moxalactam; screening.

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