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VIM-12, a Novel Plasmid-Mediated Metallo-ß-Lactamase from Klebsiella pneumoniae That Resembles a VIM-1/VIM-2 Hybrid

Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa,¹ Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens,² Department of Microbiology, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece³

Received 27 July 2005/ Returned for modification 6 September 2005/ Accepted 30 September 2005

A transferable plasmid from Klebsiella pneumoniae carried a class 1 integron containing bla_VIM-12, a novel bla_VIM-type gene, flanked by two copies of aacA7. bla_VIM-12 was clustered between bla_VIM-1 and bla_VIM-2 and differed from bla_VIM-1 by 18 nucleotides that were all located at the 3' end and matched the corresponding nucleotides in bla_VIM-2. The bla_VIM-12-associated 59-base element was identical to that described in bla_VIM-2 alleles.

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