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SUBMITTER: Al Laham N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5655106 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20171024 11
Carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria (CP-GNB) have increasingly spread worldwide, and different families of carbapenemases have been identified in various bacterial species. Here, we report the identification of five VIM metallo-β-lactamase-producing <i>Alcaligenes faecalis</i> isolates associated with a small outbreak in a large hospital in Gaza, Palestine. Next-generation sequencing analysis showed <i>bla</i><sub>VIM-2</sub> is harbored by a chromosomal genomic island among three str ...[more]