First Detection of VIM-2 Metallo-β-Lactamase-Producing Pseudomonas putida in Blattella germanica Cockroaches in an Algerian Hospital

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2017 Jul 25;61(8):e00357-17. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00357-17. Print 2017 Aug.
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Keywords: Algeria; Blattella germanica; Pseudomonas putida; VIM-2 MBL.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algeria
  • Animals
  • Cockroaches / microbiology*
  • Disk Diffusion Antimicrobial Tests
  • Hospitals
  • Humans
  • Pseudomonas Infections / drug therapy
  • Pseudomonas Infections / microbiology
  • Pseudomonas putida / drug effects
  • Pseudomonas putida / enzymology*
  • Pseudomonas putida / genetics*
  • beta-Lactamases / genetics*
  • beta-Lactamases / metabolism

Substances

  • beta-lactamase bla(vim-2)
  • beta-Lactamases