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SUBMITTER: El Garch F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3186976 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20110725 10
A carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (PA41437) susceptible to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins was recovered from several consecutive lower-respiratory-tract specimens of a patient who developed a ventilator-associated pneumonia while hospitalized in an intensive care unit. Cloning experiments identified OXA-198, a new class D β-lactamase which was weakly related (less than 45% amino acid identity) to other class D β-lactamases. Expression in Escherichia coli TOP10 and in P. aeru ...[more]