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SUBMITTER: Nodari CS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5470340 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr - Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] 20161123 2
Serratia marcescens is a Gram-negative rod intrinsically resistant to polymyxins and usually associated with wound, respiratory and urinary tract infections. The whole genome of the first GES-5-producing S. marcescens isolated from a Brazilian patient was sequenced using Ion Torrent PGM System. Besides bla<sub>GES-5</sub>, we were able to identify genes encoding for other β-lactamases, for aminoglycoside modifying enzymes and for an efflux pump to tetracyclines. ...[more]