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SUBMITTER: Bryant KA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3535906 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bryant Kendall A KA Van Schooneveld Trevor C TC Thapa Ishwor I Bastola Dhundy D Williams Laurina O LO Safranek Thomas J TJ Hinrichs Steven H SH Rupp Mark E ME Fey Paul D PD
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20121015 1
We describe the transfer of bla(KPC-4) from Enterobacter cloacae to Serratia marcescens in a single patient. DNA sequencing revealed that KPC-4 was encoded on an IncL/M plasmid, pNE1280, closely related to pCTX-M360. Further analysis found that KPC-4 was encoded within a novel Tn4401 element (Tn4401f) containing a truncated tnpA and lacking tnpR, ISKpn7 left, and Tn4401 IRL-1, which are conserved in other Tn4401 transposons. This study highlights the continued evolution of Tn4401 transposons and ...[more]