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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2006, p. 3743-3745, Vol. 72, No. 5
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.72.5.3743-3745.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Multiniche Screening Reveals the Clinically Relevant Metallo-ß-Lactamase VIM-2 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Far from the Hospital Setting: an Ongoing Dispersion Process?

Sandra Quinteira1,2 and Luísa Peixe1*

REQUIMTE, Laboratório de Microbiologia, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Porto,1 Instituto Politécnico da Saúde do Norte-ESSVA, VN Famalicão, Portugal2

Received 9 September 2005/ Accepted 8 February 2006

A screening study of the presence of metallo-ß-lactamases (IMP and VIM types and SPM-1) in isolates from different nonhospital sources was conducted, and it revealed the presence of blaVIM-2, associated with the In58 class 1 integron, in two unrelated Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from aquatic habitats. The results suggest that the hospital setting was the possible origin of these blaVIM-2-carrying strains.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratório de Microbiologia, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Aníbal Cunha 164, 4050-047 Porto, Portugal. Phone: 351-222078946. Fax: 351-222003977. E-mail: lpeixe{at}ff.up.pt.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2006, p. 3743-3745, Vol. 72, No. 5
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.72.5.3743-3745.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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