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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, August 2008, p. 2955-2958, Vol. 52, No. 8
0066-4804/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00072-08
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Characterization of the Carbapenem-Hydrolyzing Oxacillinase Oxa-58 in an Acinetobacter Genospecies 3 Clinical Isolate

Servei de Microbiologia, Centre de Diagnóstic Biomèdic, Hospital Clínic, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain,¹ Departament de Microbiologia i Ecologia, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain,² Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain³

Received 17 January 2008/ Returned for modification 20 March 2008/ Accepted 16 May 2008

Based on imipenem resistance in an Acinetobacter genospecies 3 clinical isolate, we were able to identify, for the first time in this genomic species, a plasmid-encoded bla_OXA-58 gene that was 100% homologous to the same gene in Acinetobacter baumannii.

Published ahead of print on 27 May 2008.