Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 27932081
Link to DOI – S1517-8382(16)30202-710.1016/j.bjm.2016.08.002
Braz J Microbiol. 2017 Apr-Jun; 48(2): 191-192
Serratia marcescens is a Gram-negative rod intrinsically resistant to polymyxins and usually associated with wound, respiratory and urinary tract infections. The whole genome of the first GES-5-producing S. marcescens isolated from a Brazilian patient was sequenced using Ion Torrent PGM System. Besides blaGES-5, we were able to identify genes encoding for other β-lactamases, for aminoglycoside modifying enzymes and for an efflux pump to tetracyclines.