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. 2013 Jul;51(7):2435-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00832-13. Epub 2013 May 8.

Identification of blaOXA-₅₁-like, blaOXA-₅₈, blaDIM-₁, and blaVIM carbapenemase genes in hospital Enterobacteriaceae isolates from Sierra Leone

Tomasz A Leski  1 , Umaru Bangura, David H Jimmy, Rashid Ansumana, Stephen E Lizewski, Robert W Li, David A Stenger, Chris R Taitt, Gary J Vora
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Identification of blaOXA-₅₁-like, blaOXA-₅₈, blaDIM-₁, and blaVIM carbapenemase genes in hospital Enterobacteriaceae isolates from Sierra Leone

Tomasz A Leski et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Jul.

Abstract

We describe the results of a molecular epidemiological survey of 15 carbapenemase-encoding genes from a recent collection of clinical isolates from Mercy Hospital in Bo, Sierra Leone. The most salient findings revealed that (i) 60% of the isolates harbored multiple carbapenemase genes; (ii) the blaDIM-1 gene, which has previously only been reported in The Netherlands, is also circulating in this environment; and (iii) blaOXA-51-like and blaOXA-58 genes, which were thought to reside exclusively in Acinetobacter species, can also be found in members of the Enterobacteriaceae.

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