Novel variant (bla(VIM-4)) of the metallo-beta-lactamase gene bla(VIM-1) in a clinical strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2002 Dec;46(12):4026-8. doi: 10.1128/AAC.46.12.4026-4028.2002.

Abstract

A Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate highly resistant to carbapenems was collected from a patient with postsurgical cerebrospinal infection in Greece. The isolate carried a class 1 integron that contained as a sole cassette the gene bla(VIM-4), a novel variant of bla(VIM-1), with one nucleotide difference resulting in a Ser-to-Arg change at amino acid position 175 of the VIM-1 enzyme. This is the first detection of a VIM-1 variant after its appearance in Italy.

MeSH terms

  • Carbapenems / pharmacology*
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial / genetics
  • Greece
  • Humans
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa / drug effects
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa / genetics*
  • beta-Lactamases / genetics*
  • beta-Lactamases / isolation & purification

Substances

  • Carbapenems
  • beta-Lactamases

Associated data

  • GENBANK/AY135661