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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2007, p. 614-615, Vol. 45, No. 2
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01351-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

blaVIM-2 and blaVIM-7 Carbapenemase-Producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates Detected in a Tertiary Care Medical Center in the United States: Report from the MYSTIC Program{triangledown}

H. Aboufaycal,1 H. S. Sader,2,3 K. Rolston,1* L. M. Deshpande,2 M. Toleman,4 G. Bodey,1 I. Raad,1 and R. N. Jones2,5

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas,1 JMI Laboratories, North Liberty, Iowa,2 Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil,3 University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom,4 Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts5

Received 30 June 2006/ Returned for modification 26 August 2006/ Accepted 23 November 2006

Two Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains resistant to beta-lactams, fluoroquinolones, aminoglycosides, tetracyclines, and carbapenems and susceptible only to polymyxin B (MIC ≤ 2 µg/ml) were identified as part of the Meropenem Yearly Susceptibility Test Information Collection program. Metallo-ß-lactamase screening tests were positive, PCR yielded products with blaVIM primers, and sequence analysis revealed blaVIM-7 and blaVIM-2. The isolates had distinct ribotype and pulsed-field gel electorphoresis patterns and appeared independently, remote in time and location, at the same cancer center.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd. (Unit 402), Houston, TX 77030. Phone: (713) 792-6830. Fax: (713) 745-6839. E-mail: krolston{at}mdanderson.org.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 6 December 2006.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2007, p. 614-615, Vol. 45, No. 2
0095-1137/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01351-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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