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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, December 2007, p. 4486-4488, Vol. 51, No. 12
0066-4804/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.01462-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

First Occurrence of an IMP Metallo-ß-Lactamase in Aeromonas caviae: IMP-19 in an Isolate from France{triangledown}

Catherine Neuwirth,1* Eliane Siebor,1 Frederic Robin,2 and Richard Bonnet2

Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Universitaire du Bocage, BP 77908, 21079 Dijon Cedex,1 Service de Bactériologie, Faculté de Médecine, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, 28, place H.-Dunant, 63001 Clermont-Ferrand, France2

Received 21 November 2006/ Returned for modification 1 February 2007/ Accepted 2 October 2007

We describe the first IMP metallo-ß-lactamase in Aeromonas caviae: IMP-19, which differed from IMP-2 by a single amino acid change (Arg to Ala at position 38). blaIMP-19 was found within a class 1 integron located on a 35-kb plasmid. This is also the first description of an IMP producer in France.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Universitaire du Bocage, BP 77908, 21079 Dijon Cedex, France. Phone: 33-3 80 29 32 60. Fax: 33-3 80 29 36 67. E-mail: catherine.neuwirth{at}chu-dijon.fr

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 15 October 2007.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, December 2007, p. 4486-4488, Vol. 51, No. 12
0066-4804/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.01462-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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