Emergence of bla NDM-1 associated with the aac(6')-Ib-cr, acrB, cps, and mrkD genes in a clinical isolate of multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae from Recife-PE, Brazil.
Alexsandra Maria Lima ScavuzziElza Ferreira FirmoÉrica Maria de OliveiraAna Catarina de Souza LopesPublished in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2019)
To our knowledge, this is the first report on bla NDM-1 in Recife-PE. This detection alerts researchers to the need to control the spread of bla NDM-1 resistance gene by this bacterium in Brazil.