Pseudomonas aeruginosa are quite a common cause of hospital-acquired infections. The goal of this study was to characterize P. aeruginosa isolates and identify the prevalence rate of P. aeruginosa resistant to imipenem due to metallo-ßlactamase (MBL) genes. A total of 74 P. aeruginosa isolates were obtained between
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