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Performance of two immunochromatographic tests in detecting KPC variants conferring resistance to ceftazidime-avibactam

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Aline Valério de Lima received a scholarship from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico—CNPq.

This work was supported by a grant from Fleury Group (Project NP-554), São Paulo, Brazil, and from CNPq—INCT MCTI/CNPq/CAPES/FAPs n° 16/2014.

This study was partially supported by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001.

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  1. Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Laboratório RAMC - Resistência Antimicrobiana e Microbiologia Clínica, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Aline Valério de Lima, Keila de Oliveira Lima & Jorge Luiz Mello Sampaio

  2. Departamento de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Grupo Fleury, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Darlan Augusto da Costa Rocha

  3. Setor de Microbiologia, Grupo Fleury, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Paola Cappellano

  4. Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Ícaro Boszczowski

  5. Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Suely Carlos Ferreira Sampaio

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de Lima, A.V., de Oliveira Lima, K., da Costa Rocha, D.A. et al. Performance of two immunochromatographic tests in detecting KPC variants conferring resistance to ceftazidime-avibactam. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-024-04815-w

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