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SUBMITTER: Yuan M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC90280 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yuan M M Hall L M LM Hoogkamp-Korstanje J J Livermore D M DM
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20010101 1
Four ceftazidime-resistant isolates of a Klebsiella pneumoniae strain were collected from intensive care unit patients in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. These isolates had TEM-29 and SHV-14 beta-lactamases. SHV-14 is a novel variant, with two substitutions compared with the sequence of SHV-1: Ile8Phe and Arg43Ser. Its gene also had a silent C-->T mutation at nucleotide 481. The SHV-14 enzyme had slightly higher V(max) rates than SHV-1 for oxyimino-aminothiazolyl cephalosporins, but this activity was ...[more]