Identification of the first VIM metallo-beta-lactamase-producing multiresistant Aeromonas hydrophila strain

J Clin Microbiol. 2008 May;46(5):1878-80. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00047-08. Epub 2008 Mar 26.

Abstract

A VIM metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Aeromonas hydrophila strain carrying an integron-borne bla(VIM-4) gene was isolated from a cirrhotic patient's fecal sample in a Budapest hospital. The variable region of this integron is identical with that of a previously characterized integron from Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates in Pécs in southern Hungary.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aeromonas hydrophila / enzymology*
  • Aeromonas hydrophila / isolation & purification*
  • Aged
  • Base Sequence
  • DNA, Bacterial / chemistry
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics
  • Feces / microbiology
  • Gene Order
  • Genes, Bacterial
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / microbiology
  • Humans
  • Hungary
  • Integrons
  • Liver Cirrhosis / complications
  • Male
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa / genetics
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • beta-Lactam Resistance / genetics*
  • beta-Lactamases / biosynthesis*
  • beta-Lactamases / genetics*

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial
  • beta-Lactamases

Associated data

  • GENBANK/EU581706