Introduction: The spread of Pseudomonas aeruginosa variants associated with the emergence of carbapenem resistance genotypes, is of great concern worldwide. Objectives: Molecular epidemiological study of carbapenem resistance in isolates of P. aeruginosa from blood. Material and Methods: We conducted a prospective observational study through active surveillance in the HC-UFU Microbiology Laboratory for detection of patients with P. aeruginosa bacteremia, from May/2009 to December/2012. The mechanisms of resistance to carbapenems were studied based on phenotypic methods, including Synergy Test with Double Disk and Hodge Test, and genotypic to detection of carnapenemase genes, including MBL genes (blaIMP, blaVIM, blaSIM, blaGIM e blaSPM) and ...