Multiniche screening reveals the clinically relevant metallo-beta-lactamase VIM-2 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa far from the hospital setting: an ongoing dispersion process?
A screening study of the presence of metallo-beta-lactamases (IMP and VIM types and SPM-1) in isolates from different nonhospital sources was conducted, and it revealed the presence of bla(VIM-2), associated with the In58 class 1 integron, in two unrelated Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from aquatic habitats. The results suggest that the hospital setting was the possible origin of these bla(VIM-2)-carrying strains.
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Sandra
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Laboratório de Microbiologia, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Aníbal Cunha 164, 4050-047 Porto, Portugal.
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