Spread of Metallo-β-lactamases: screening reveals the presence of a BLA SPM-1 gene in hospital sewage in southern Brazil

Daiane Bopp Fuentefria, Alessandra Einsfeld Ferreira, Tiago Gräf, Gertrudes Corção
2009 Brazilian Journal of Microbiology  
Of 396 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from hospital sewage, the blaSPM-1 gene was confirmed in nine. This is the first report of environmental P. aeruginosa strains carrying the blaSPM-1 gene in Brazil. The carbapenem resistance, already disseminated among clinical isolates, has been detected among environmental isolates.
doi:10.1590/s1517-83822009000100013 fatcat:zs5oztandbhxpml3qxadqaoxpu