Dissemination of SHV-12 and characterization of new AmpC-type beta-lactamase genes among clinical isolates of enterobacter species in Korea.

ABSTRACT: To determine the prevalence and genotype of an extended-spectrum beta-lactamase and new chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamases among clinical isolates of Enterobacter species, we performed antibiotic susceptibility testing, pI determination, induction tests, transconjugation, enterobacterial repetitive consensus (ERIC) PCR, sequencing, and phylogenetic analysis. Among the 51 clinical isolates collected from a university hospital in Korea, 6 isolates have been shown to produce SHV-12 and inducible AmpC beta-lactamases. These also included three isolates producing TEM-1b and one strain carrying TEM-1b and CMY-type beta-lactamases with a pI of 8.0. The results from ERIC PCR revealed that six isolates were genetically unrelated, suggesting that dissemination of SHV-12 was responsible for the spread

SUBMITTER: Lee SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC156513 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature