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ReviewIndian journal of microbiology2025

Metallo Beta Lactamase Enzymes.

Sawsan Mohammed Kareem, Israa Hussien Hamzah, Marwa Ghalib Ali

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Review in Indian journal of microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Sawsan Mohammed KareemBiology department, College of Science, Mustansiriyah University, POX 10244, Baghdad, Iraq.ORCID 0000-0003-2627-8716
Israa Hussien HamzahBiology department, College of Science, Mustansiriyah University, POX 10244, Baghdad, Iraq.
Marwa Ghalib AliDepartment of Medical Laboratory, Al-Mahmmodiya Hospital, Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multidrug resistance has become more common in Gram-negative bacteria, making them one of the emerging public health problems with extremely detrimental effects on the world economy. These drugs are broad-spectrum-lactam antibiotics used as a last-resort treatment against multidrug-resistant microorganisms (MDROs). As the resistance to these last-line drugs grows, so does the need to detect and deal with MDROs that carbapenem-resistant. The group B carbapenemases, such as Imipenem metallo-lactamases (IMP) and Verona integron-encoded metallo-lactamases (VIM), are the most prevalent. Integrons, which also include various antibiotic resistance genes, contain the genes for IMP and VIM, promoting their worldwide proliferation. Many papers reported that spreading genes of these enzymes among bacteria rapidly nowadays had had a negative effect on infection control. This review can help with ensuring the understanding of carbapenem resistance as well as policies for eradications and declination of resistance mechanisms that are critical not only for therapeutic treatment but also for infection control measures and epidemic investigations and detections. This review aims to comprehend the mechanism of resistance and transmission of these elements.

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CarbapenemCarbapenemaseMetallo beta lactamase enzymes

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PMID40655350
PMCPMC12245740

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