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SUBMITTER: Tessier F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC105882 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tessier F F Arpin C C Allery A A Quentin C C
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 19980801 8
A clinical isolate of Morganella morganii, with reduced susceptibility to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins and aztreonam, was found to produce an extended-spectrum beta-lactamase with a pI of 6.4. The nucleotide sequence of the encoding gene was that of the gene encoding TEM-21. This is the first molecular characterization of an extended-spectrum beta-lactamase in M. morganii. ...[more]