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The carbapenem inoculum effect provides insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying carbapenem resistance in the Enterobacterales.
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- Rising Carbapenem MICs and Clinical Dose Optimization: Bridging Resistance Surveillance and Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Strategies.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Pre-Target Interception Defines Carbapenem Failure in Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales: A Mechanistic Framework for Spatiotemporal Drug Reprogramming.Pharmaceutics · 2026Review
- Genetic profiling of the tolC component of the acrAB-TolC efflux pump in clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates: a cross-sectional study in Pontianak, Indonesia.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2026Article
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- Successful treatment of carbapenem-resistantAME case reports · 2026Article
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- Clinical pilot of bacterial transcriptional profiling as a combined genotypic and phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility test.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2024Article
- Clinical Pilot of Bacterial Transcriptional Profiling as a Combined Genotypic and Phenotypic Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
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Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) are important pathogens that can develop resistance via multiple molecular mechanisms, including hydrolysis or reduced antibiotic influx. Identifying these mechanisms can improve pathogen surveillance, infection control, and patient care. We investigated, both phenomenologically and mechanistically, how resistance mechanisms influence the carbapenem inoculum effect (IE), a phenomenon where inoculum size affects antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST). We demonstrated that any of seven different carbapenemases were sufficient to impart a meropenem IE when transformed into a laboratory strain of
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