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How do you treat a patient with a gram-negative infection with resistance to imipenem but sensitivity to meropenem and negative for Carbapenem resistant organism by xpert Carba-R-assay?

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Infectious Disease · Stanford

The finding of meropenem susceptible, imipenem resistant GNR can be explained in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by efflux pump overexpression and porin (particularly OprD) loss. The opposite pattern in P. aeruginosa - imipenem susceptible, meropenem resistant – has often been attributed to overexpression of...

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