Genetic and Enzymatic Properties of Metallo-β <b>-</b> Lactamase VIM-5 from a Clinical Isolate of <i>Enterobacter cloacae</i>

Abstract

A VIM-5-producing Enterobacter cloacae isolate (EDV/1) was identified in a collection of clinical strains stored before 2002. The gene, bla(VIM-5), was located on a 2,712-bp BamHI-HindIII fragment of a 23-kbp (approximately) nonconjugative plasmid (pEDV5) in a class 1 integron as a single gene cassette.