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. 2007 Feb;45(2):614-5.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01351-06. Epub 2006 Dec 6.

blaVIM-2 and blaVIM-7 carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates detected in a tertiary care medical center in the United States: report from the MYSTIC program

H Aboufaycal  1 , H S Sader, K Rolston, L M Deshpande, M Toleman, G Bodey, I Raad, R N Jones
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blaVIM-2 and blaVIM-7 carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates detected in a tertiary care medical center in the United States: report from the MYSTIC program

H Aboufaycal et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Feb.

Abstract

Two Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains resistant to beta-lactams, fluoroquinolones, aminoglycosides, tetracyclines, and carbapenems and susceptible only to polymyxin B (MIC <or= 2 microg/ml) were identified as part of the Meropenem Yearly Susceptibility Test Information Collection program. Metallo-beta-lactamase screening tests were positive, PCR yielded products with blaVIM primers, and sequence analysis revealed blaVIM-7 and blaVIM-2. The isolates had distinct ribotype and pulsed-field gel electorphoresis patterns and appeared independently, remote in time and location, at the same cancer center.

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