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Medical Microbiology • Braz. J. Microbiol. 43 (1) • Mar 2012 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S1517-83822012000100027   copy

First occurrence of blaOXA-58 in Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from a clinical sample in Southern Brazil

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This is the first report of an Acinetobacter baumannii from clinical origin carrying the blaOXA-58 gene in Brazil. The isolate included in this study was from a patient during an outbreak in Porto Alegre, RS, Southern Brazil, in 2007. It was resistant to most of the beta-lactams tested, it has also the blaOXA-65 gene and the ISAba1 sequence located upstream to both blaOXA genes detected and it has a MIC of imipenem of 64 μg/mL.

blaOXA-58; ISAba1; blaOXA-65; carbapenemases; Acinetobacter baumannii

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