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SUBMITTER: Margate E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4616925 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul-Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo 20150701 4
In this brief communication we describe the occurrence of a KPC-producing Serratia marcescens isolate in a home-care patient from Recife, Brazil. The blaKPC, blaSPM, blaIMP, blaVIM, blaOXA, blaCTX-M, blaSHV, blaTEM and blaGES genes were investigated by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and DNA sequencing. The isolate was positive for blaKPC-2 and blaTEM-1 and was resistant to aztreonam, cefepime, cefotaxime, imipenem, meropenem, gentamicin, ciprofloxacin and cefazidime, and susceptible only to ami ...[more]