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SUBMITTER: Leski TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3697688 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20130508 7
We describe the results of a molecular epidemiological survey of 15 carbapenemase-encoding genes from a recent collection of clinical isolates from Mercy Hospital in Bo, Sierra Leone. The most salient findings revealed that (i) 60% of the isolates harbored multiple carbapenemase genes; (ii) the blaDIM-1 gene, which has previously only been reported in The Netherlands, is also circulating in this environment; and (iii) blaOXA-51-like and blaOXA-58 genes, which were thought to reside exclusively i ...[more]