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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, August 2008, p. 2955-2958, Vol. 52, No. 8
0066-4804/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00072-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Characterization of the Carbapenem-Hydrolyzing Oxacillinase Oxa-58 in an Acinetobacter Genospecies 3 Clinical Isolate{triangledown}

Sara Marti,1 Javier Sánchez-Céspedes,1 M. Dolores Blasco,2 Marc Ruiz,1 Paula Espinal,1 Verónica Alba,1 Felipe Fernández-Cuenca,3 Alvaro Pascual,3 and Jordi Vila1*

Servei de Microbiologia, Centre de Diagnóstic Biomèdic, Hospital Clínic, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain,1 Departament de Microbiologia i Ecologia, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain,2 Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain3

Received 17 January 2008/ Returned for modification 20 March 2008/ Accepted 16 May 2008

Based on imipenem resistance in an Acinetobacter genospecies 3 clinical isolate, we were able to identify, for the first time in this genomic species, a plasmid-encoded blaOXA-58 gene that was 100% homologous to the same gene in Acinetobacter baumannii.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Servei de Microbiologia, Centre de Diagnóstic Biomèdic, Hospital Clínic, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Phone: 34 93 227 55 22. Fax: 34 93 227 93 72. E-mail: jvila{at}ub.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 27 May 2008.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, August 2008, p. 2955-2958, Vol. 52, No. 8
0066-4804/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00072-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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