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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2007, p. 2211-2214, Vol. 51, No. 6
0066-4804/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.01139-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Spread in an Italian Hospital of a Clonal Acinetobacter baumannii Strain Producing the TEM-92 Extended-Spectrum ß-Lactamase{triangledown}

Andrea Endimiani,1* Francesco Luzzaro,1 Roberta Migliavacca,2 Elisabetta Mantengoli,3 Andrea M. Hujer,4 Kristine M. Hujer,4 Laura Pagani,2 Robert A. Bonomo,4 Gian Maria Rossolini,3 and Antonio Toniolo1*

Laboratorio di Microbiologia, Ospedale di Circolo and Università dell'Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy,1 Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologiche, Eidologiche e Cliniche, Sezione di Microbiologia, Università di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy,2 Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Sezione di Microbiologia, Università di Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy,3 Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio 441064

Received 11 September 2006/ Returned for modification 27 October 2006/ Accepted 20 March 2007

Clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii (n = 470) were collected during a 7-year period and investigated for the genetic determinants of resistance to expanded-spectrum ß-lactams. Thirty-one isolates produced the TEM-92 extended-spectrum ß-lactamase (ESBL) and were clonally related. This is the first report of A. baumannii producing a TEM-type ESBL.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratorio di Microbiologia, Ospedale di Circolo and Università dell'Insubria, Viale Borri 57, 21100 Varese, Italy. Phone: 39 0332 278309. Fax: 39 0332 260517. E-mail for Antonio Toniolo: antonio.toniolo{at}uninsubria.it. E-mail for Andrea Endimiani: aendimiani{at}tin.it

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 2 April 2007.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2007, p. 2211-2214, Vol. 51, No. 6
0066-4804/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.01139-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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