Identification of a blaVIM-4 gene in the internationally successful Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 clone and in a Klebsiella oxytoca strain in Hungary

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Sir, The VIM-type metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) have been detected worldwide in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter spp., and, more recently, in many species of Enterobacteriaceae. After the first detection of VIM-4 in P. aeruginosa in Greece in 2001,1 these strains were isolated in many countries, including Hungary, where VIM-4- producing P. aeruginosa and Aeromonas hydrophila were reported.2,3 In Hungarian...

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