Volume 9, Number 7—July 2003
Dispatch
VIM- and IMP-Type Metallo-β-lactamase–Producing Pseudomonas spp. and Acinetobacter spp. in Korean Hospitals
Kyungwon Lee*, Wee Gyo Lee†, Young Uh‡, Gyoung Yim Ha§, Jihyun Cho¶, Yunsop Chong*
, and the Korean Nationwide Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance group1
, and the Korean Nationwide Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance group1
Table 1
Detection of metallo-β-lactamase–producing isolates among imipenem-nonsusceptible isolates of Pseudomoas spp. and Acinetobacter spp.
| Organism | City/province | No. hospitals (%) |
No. isolates (%) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tested | Positive | Tested | Positive | |||
| Pseudomonas spp. |
Seoul |
11a |
4 (36.4) |
144 |
12 (8.3) |
|
| Kyungki |
2 |
2 (100) |
40 |
6 (15.0) |
||
| Kangwon |
2 |
1 (50.0) |
57 |
2 (3.5) |
||
| Chulla |
4 |
4 (100) |
108 |
24 (22.2) |
||
| Kyungsang |
2 |
0 (0) |
38 |
0 (0) |
||
| Total |
21 |
11 (52.4) |
387 |
44 (11.4) |
||
| Acinetobacter spp. | Seoul |
11a |
4 (36.4) |
107 |
12 (11.2) |
|
| Kyungki |
3 |
0 (0) |
29 |
0 (0) |
||
| Kangwon |
3 |
2 (25.0) |
41 |
8 (19.5) |
||
| Chulla |
3 |
1 (12.5) |
25 |
13 (52.0) |
||
| Kyungsang |
2 |
1 (50.0) |
53 |
1 (1.9) |
||
| Chungchung |
2 |
2 (100) |
12 |
4 (33.3) |
||
| Total | 24 | 10 (41.7) | 267 | 38 (14.2) | ||
aFour were tertiary-care hospitals.
1In addition to the listed authors, this group includes the following: Jung Oak Kang, Moon Yeon Kim, Nam Yong Lee, Mi-Na Kim, Myungshin Kim, Kyung Soon Song, Ki Sook Hong, In Ki Paik, Hye Soo Lee, Sook-Jin Jang, Ae Ja Park, Sung Ha Kang, Won Keun Song, Insoo Rheem, Eui-Chong Kim, Yeon Joon Park, Jong Hee Shin, Myungseo Kang, Young-Kyu Sun, Hee Joo Lee, Hwan-Sub Lim, Jong Wook Lee, and Bo-Moon Shin.
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