Characterization of Two New CTX-M-25-Group Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Variants Identified in Escherichia coli Isolates from Israel

Jascha Vervoort; Anna Baraniak; Muriel Gazin; Julia Sabirova; Christine Lammens; Meital Kazma; Anna Grabowska; Radosław Izdebski; Yehuda Carmeli; Samir Kumar-Singh; Marek Gniadkowski; Herman Goossens; Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046329

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Characterization of Two New CTX-M-25-Group Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Variants Identified in Escherichia coli Isolates from Israel

Jascha Vervoort,

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Anna Baraniak,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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Muriel Gazin,

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Julia Sabirova,

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Christine Lammens,

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Meital Kazma,

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Laboratory for Molecular Epidemiology and Antibiotic Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Anna Grabowska,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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Radosław Izdebski,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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Yehuda Carmeli,

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Laboratory for Molecular Epidemiology and Antibiotic Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Samir Kumar-Singh,

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, Molecular pathology Group, Cell Biology and Histology, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Marek Gniadkowski,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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Herman Goossens,

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar, on behalf of the MOSAR WP2 and SATURN WP1 study groups

* E-mail: surbhi.malhotra@ua.ac.be

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Characterization of Two New CTX-M-25-Group Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Variants Identified in Escherichia coli Isolates from Israel

Jascha Vervoort,
Anna Baraniak,
Muriel Gazin,
Julia Sabirova,
Christine Lammens,
Meital Kazma,
Anna Grabowska,
Radosław Izdebski,
Yehuda Carmeli,
Samir Kumar-Singh

Published: September 26, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046329

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