Hospital-Based Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Southern Brazil: Resistance Profiles and Phenotypic Carbapenemase Screening.
PURPOSE To describe the distribution of clinically relevant bacterial pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance profiles in a tertiary university hospital in southern Brazil, with emphasis on carbapenem resistance and phenotypic carbapenemase screening. METHODS This retrospective study analysed 1,513 clinical isol...