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SUBMITTER: Arcari G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7179263 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arcari Gabriele G Di Lella Federica Maria FM Bibbolino Giulia G Mengoni Fabio F Beccaccioli Marzia M Antonelli Guido G Faino Luigi L Carattoli Alessandra A
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20200324 4
In this study, we investigated VIM-1-producing <i>Escherichia coli</i>, <i>Klebsiella oxytoca</i>, <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>, <i>Citrobacter freundii</i>, and <i>Enterobacter cloacae</i> strains, isolated in 2019 during a period of active surveillance of carbapenem-resistant <i>Enterobacterales</i> in a large university hospital in Italy. VIM-1-producing strains colonized the gut of patients, with up to three different VIM-1-positive bacterial species isolated from a single rectal swab, but a ...[more]