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First Isolation of <i>bla</i> <sub>IMI-2</sub> in an <i>Enterobacter cloacae</i> Clinical Isolate from China
28 Mar 2006
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Carbapenem resistance mediated by acquired carbapenemases is a growing concern worldwide. Acquired class A carbapenemases of the NMC/IMI, SME, and KPC types remain infrequent in Enterobacteriaceae (2, 6-8), but some of them have increasingly been reported recently (10). IMI-1 was first described in 1996 in clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae (9). Recently, IMI-2, a variant that differs from IMI-1 by 2 amino...
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