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Serratia marcescens harbouring SME-type class A carbapenemases in Canada and the presence of blaSME on a novel genomic island, SmarGI1-1.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jul 2014
Mataseje L F, Boyd D A, Delport J, Hoang L, Imperial M, Lefebvre B, Kuhn M, Van Caeseele P, Willey B M, Mulvey M R
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: An increasing prevalence since 2010 of Serratia marcescens harbouring the Ambler class A carbapenemase SME prompted us to further characterize these isolates. METHODS: Isolates harbouring bla(SME) were identified by PCR and sequencing. Phenotypic analysis for carbapenemase activity wa...
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