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SUBMITTER: Tibbetts R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2546724 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tibbetts R R Frye J G JG Marschall J J Warren D D Dunne W W
Journal of clinical microbiology 20080716 9
An isolate of Proteus mirabilis recovered from blood cultures of a diabetic patient was shown to be resistant to imipenem, meropenem, and ertapenem by disk diffusion susceptibility testing. Amplification of whole-cell and/or plasmid DNA recovered from the isolate with primers specific for the bla(KPC) carbapenemase gene produced an amplicon of the expected size which was confirmed to be bla(KPC-2) by sequence analysis. Transformation of a susceptible Escherichia coli host with plasmid preparatio ...[more]