PMID: 7031863Jan 1, 1981Paper

Resistance of Pseudomonas species to beta-lactam antibiotics

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases. Supplementum
J L Bidwell, D S Reeves

Abstract

Resistance of Pseudomonas species to beta-lactam compounds involves both drug exclusion and hydrolytic inactivation. Exclusion is effected by a permeability barrier in the cell envelope, whereas hydrolysis is effected by beta-lactamases, encoded either by the chromosome or by R-plasmids. Chromosomally-mediated beta-lactamases are generally inducible and have a high activity against cephalosporins. They are virtually universally present in P. aeruginosa. Conversely, the generally infrequent R-plasmid-mediated beta-lactamases are constitutive, with substrate profiles specific to each enzyme type. Four Pseudomonas-specific R-plasmid-mediated beta-lactamases are responsible for high level resistance to carbenicillin. Resistance to carbenicillin may also be associated with isolates not possessing this type of beta-lactamase: the permeability barrier effect is probably highly significant in these isolates.

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