VIM-1, VIM-34, and IMP-8 Carbapenemase-Producing Escherichia coli Strains Recovered from a Portuguese River

Nicolas Kieffer; Laurent Poirel; Lucinda J Bessa; Ana Barbosa-Vasconcelos; Paulo Martins da Costa; Patrice Nordmann

doi:10.1128/AAC.02632-15

VIM-1, VIM-34, and IMP-8 Carbapenemase-Producing Escherichia coli Strains Recovered from a Portuguese River

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2016 Mar 25;60(4):2585-6. doi: 10.1128/AAC.02632-15. Print 2016 Apr.

Authors

Nicolas Kieffer¹, Laurent Poirel², Lucinda J Bessa³, Ana Barbosa-Vasconcelos³, Paulo Martins da Costa⁴, Patrice Nordmann⁵

Affiliations

¹ "Emerging Antibiotic Resistance" Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
² "Emerging Antibiotic Resistance" Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland laurent.poirel@unifr.ch.
³ ICBAS, Abel Salazar Institute for the Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
⁴ ICBAS, Abel Salazar Institute for the Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal CIIMAR, Interdisciplinary Center for Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
⁵ "Emerging Antibiotic Resistance" Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland HFR-Hôpital Cantonal, Fribourg, Switzerland.

No abstract available

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
Conjugation, Genetic
Escherichia coli / drug effects
Escherichia coli / enzymology
Escherichia coli / genetics*
Escherichia coli / isolation & purification
Gene Expression
Humans
Isoenzymes / genetics
Isoenzymes / metabolism
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Portugal
Public Health Surveillance
Rivers / microbiology
Water Microbiology*
beta-Lactam Resistance / genetics*
beta-Lactamases / genetics*
beta-Lactamases / metabolism
beta-Lactams / pharmacology

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Isoenzymes
beta-Lactams
IMP-8 enzyme
VIM-1 metallo-beta-lactamase
beta-Lactamases

Grants and funding

This study was financed by the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and by the ANIHWA-ERA-NET project PRAHAD funded by the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, Bern, Switzerland.