… The first identified isolate expressing an OXA-type carbapenemase was the … The OXA-69
enzyme is the first OXA-type carbapenemase that has been shown to form a dimer, 52 similar to …

… -48-like enzyme and was first reported in 2004 from a clinical isolate obtained in Istanbul,
Turkey (22). K. pneumoniae 11978 was responsible for lower urinary tract infection and tested …

… In this study, bla OXA-48 -positive isolates had substantially lower … of bla OXA-48 -negative
isolates. Carbapenem MICs varied substantially among the 81 OXA-48-positive isolates and …

… Sir, The production of carbapenemases is the most common mechanism responsible for …
parts of the world, and acquired OXA-type carbapenemases which have been more frequently …

… OXA-51-like carbapenemases. bla OXA-51 -like genes are chromosomally integrated, and
OXA-… an ISAba1 insertion sequence at the 5′ end of the bla OXA-51 -like gene (36). Overall, …

… the isolates. This report describes the structure of a 49-kb plasmid harboring the bla OXA-198
gene and presents the first description of OXA-198-producing P. aeruginosa isolates …

… and the prevalence of OXA-type carbapenemases among the clinical isolates of A. baumannii
in … The bla OXA-58 carbapenemase gene was not found in the present study. The isolates …

… In this context it should be added that IMP-type metallo-β-lactamases, which have much
greater carbapenemase activity than the present OXA types, often only confer significant …

… OXA carbapenemase genes, including bla OXA-23 -like, bla … baumannii strains producing
the OXA-23 carbapenemase … that OXA-23 was the most prevalent carbapenemase among …

… The co-occurrence of two distinct carbapenemase-encoding genes in a single isolate
was also detected in this study. In addition, the high occurrence rate of ST2 clinical isolates …