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SUBMITTER: Martins WM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4958162 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Martins Willames M B S WM Nicoletti Adriana G AG Santos Silvia R SR Sampaio Jorge L M JL Gales Ana C AC
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20160722 8
BKC-1 is a new class A serine carbapenemase that was recently identified in Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates. The principal objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency of blaBKC-1 by testing a collection of Klebsiella isolates. Only 2 of 635 Klebsiella isolates (0.3%) carried blaBKC-1 The two BKC-1-producing isolates belonged to clonal complex 442 and possessed identical pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns. The blaBKC-1 gene was inserted into a 10-kb plasmid that was ident ...[more]