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Emergence and spread of KPC-2-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in a Brazilian teaching hospital☆

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Funding

This study was supported by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) and the National Council for Science and Technological Development (CNPq) by grants to RC [process no. 2012/15459-6] and to ACG [process no.307816/2009-5], respectively.

Competing interests

ACG has received research funding and/or consultation fees from AstraZeneca, MSD, Novartis, Thermo Fisher Scientific and bioMérieux. All other authors declare no competing interests.

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This work was presented in part at the 53rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), 2013, Denver, CO [poster C2-1609c].

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These two authors contributed equally to this work.

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