| oxa-24 carbapenemase gene flanked by xerc/xerd-like recombination sites in different plasmids from different acinetobacter species isolated during a nosocomial outbreak. | a clinical strain of acinetobacter calcoaceticus resistant to carbapenems was isolated from a blood culture sample from an inpatient in a hospital in madrid (spain) during a large outbreak of infection (affecting more than 300 inpatients), caused by a multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii clone. the carbapenem resistance in both the a. calcoaceticus and a. baumannii clones was due to a bla(oxa-24) gene harbored in different plasmids. the plasmids were fully sequenced, revealing the presenc ... | 2010 | 20385865 |