Epidemiology and Genetics of VIM-type Metallo-β-lactamases in Gram-negative Bacilli Wei-Hua Zhao; Zhi-Qing Hu Disclosures Future Microbiol. 2011;6 (3):317-333. Future Perspective ...

First, gram-negative bacteria have a thin cell wall that is about 1.5 to 10 nanometers across, whereas gram-positive bacteria have a thick cell wall measuring about 20 to 80 nanometers.

Cosmina Zeana, Frank E. Palmieri, Vikas Gupta, Gang Ye, Peter Lao, Kalvin Yu, Kyoung-Sil Kang, Larry Schiller, Murli Purswani, Association between fluoroquinolone utilization rates and ...

† VIMs are made up of 266 amino acid residues with the exception of VIM-7 (265 residues) and VIM-18 (262 residues). VIM-21, -22 and -27 have been assigned in the Lahey Clinic [201], but there ...