Open AccessCharacterization of a New bla OXA-48 -Carrying Plasmid in Enterobacteriaceae
Author(s) -
Sibel Berger,
Corentine Alauzet,
Nejla Aissa,
Sandrine Hénard,
Christian Rabaud,
Richard Bonnet,
Alain Lozniewski
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.07
H-Index - 259
eISSN - 1070-6283
pISSN - 0066-4804
DOI - 10.1128/aac.02550-12
Subject(s) - enterobacteriaceae , klebsiella pneumoniae , plasmid , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , strain (injury) , escherichia coli , genetics , gene , anatomy
In this work, we characterized a new, 160-kb, blaOXA-48-harboring IncL/M-type plasmid isolated from a Klebsiella pneumoniae strain from France. Moreover, we report the transfer of a 60-kb OXA-48-encoding plasmid from Klebsiella pneumoniae to other Enterobacteriaceae in two patients.
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