Characterization of a new blaOXA-48-carrying plasmid in Enterobacteriaceae.

Sibel Berger (1) , Corentine Alauzet (1) , Nejla Aissa (1) , Sandrine Hénard (2) , Christian Rabaud (2) , Richard Bonnet (3) , Alain Lozniewski (1)

1 Laboratoire de Bactériologie [CHU Nancy]
2 Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales [CHRU Nancy]
3 Service de Bactériologie [CHU Clermont-Ferrand]

In this work, we characterized a new, 160-kb, blaOXA-48-harboring IncL/M-type plasmid isolated from a Klebsiella pneumoniae strain from France. Moreover, we report the transfer of a 60-kb OXA-48-encoding plasmid from Klebsiella pneumoniae to other Enterobacteriaceae in two patients.

Domaines: Microbiologie et Parasitologie

Sibel Berger, Corentine Alauzet, Nejla Aissa, Sandrine Hénard, Christian Rabaud, et al.. Characterization of a new blaOXA-48-carrying plasmid in Enterobacteriaceae.. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2013, 57 (8), pp.4064-7. ⟨hal-01160100⟩