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. 2005 Aug;49(8):3492-4.
doi: 10.1128/AAC.49.8.3492-3494.2005.

First detection of a carbapenem-hydrolyzing metalloenzyme in two enterobacteriaceae isolates in Spain

M Teresa Tórtola  1 , Susana Lavilla, Elisenda Miró, Juan José González, Nieves Larrosa, Montserrat Sabaté, Ferran Navarro, Guillermo Prats
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First detection of a carbapenem-hydrolyzing metalloenzyme in two enterobacteriaceae isolates in Spain

M Teresa Tórtola et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2005 Aug.

Abstract

Two strains of Enterobacteriaceae, Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, producing VIM-1 were isolated for the first time in Spain. In both strains, bla(VIM-1) was found to be carried on a gene cassette inserted into a class 1 integron. The bla(VIM-1)-containing integron was located on a transferable plasmid.

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