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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, November 2000, p. 3220-3223, Vol. 44, No. 11
0066-4804/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Heterogeneity of AmpC Cephalosporinases of Hafnia alvei Clinical Isolates Expressing Inducible or Constitutive Ceftazidime Resistance Phenotypes

Delphine Girlich, Thierry Naas, Samuel Bellais, Laurent Poirel, Amal Karim, and Patrice Nordmann*

Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Assistance Publique/Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de Médecine Paris-Sud, 94275 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Received 28 February 2000/Returned for modification 16 June 2000/Accepted 18 August 2000

Ten unrelated Hafnia alvei clinical isolates were grouped according to either their low-level and inducible cephalosporinase production or their high-level and constitutive cephalosporinase production phenotype. Their AmpC sequences shared 85 to 100% amino acid identity. The immediate genetic environment of ampC genes was conserved in H. alvei isolates but was different from that found in other ampC-possessing enterobacterial species.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, Hôpital de Bicêtre, 78 rue du Général Leclerc, 94275 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre Cedex, France. Phone: 33 1 45 21 36 32. Fax: 33 1 45 21 63 40. E-mail: nordmann.patrice{at}bct.ap-hop-paris.fr.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, November 2000, p. 3220-3223, Vol. 44, No. 11
0066-4804/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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