2010•Journal of Clinical MicrobiologyOpen access

Emergence of VIM-12 in Enterobacter cloacae

Maria Panopoulou, E. Alepopoulou, Alexandros Ikonomidis, Anastasia Grapsa, Eleni Paspalidou, Sofia Kartali-Ktenidou

Abstract

Detection of the bla(VIM-12) gene within the originally described Inh12 integron in a clinical isolate of Enterobacter cloacae is reported for the first time worldwide. Integron Inh12 was carried on a conjugative plasmid of approximately 85 kb which also conferred resistance to aztreonam, likely due to AmpC production.

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Key concepts: Integron, Enterobacter cloacae, Aztreonam, Microbiology, Plasmid, Biology, Enterobacter, Enterobacteriaceae Infections