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SUBMITTER: Poirel L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2772328 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Poirel Laurent L Mugnier Pauline D PD Toleman Mark A MA Walsh Timothy R TR Rapoport Melina J MJ Petroni Alejandro A Nordmann Patrice P
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20090824 11
The expanded-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) gene bla(VEB-1), identified worldwide in Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is associated with either class 1 integrons or repeated elements. We report here the first association of bla(VEB-1a) with the insertion sequence ISCR2 in six Acinetobacter species isolates recovered from Argentina. That genetic structure was likely at the origin of the mobilization of this ESBL gene. ...[more]