• VIM-1 metallo-β-lactamase in Acinetobacter baumannii 

      Tsakris, A.; Ikonomidis, A.; Pournaras, S.; Tzouvelekis, L. S.; Sofianou, D.; Legakis, N. J.; Maniatis, A. N. (2006)
      In 2004 and 2005, 5 metallo-β-lactamase (MBL)-positive Acinetobacter baumannii isolates were found in 2 Greek hospitals. Isolates were unrelated and carried blaVIM-1 in a class 1 integron; blaOXA-51- and blaOXA-58-like ...
    • VIM-12, a novel plasmid-mediated metallo-β-lactamase from Klebsiella pneumoniae that resembles a VIM-1/VIM-2 hybrid 

      Pournaras, S.; Ikonomidis, A.; Tzouvelekis, L. S.; Tokatlidou, D.; Spanakis, N.; Maniatis, A. N.; Legakis, N. J.; Tsakris, A. (2005)
      A transferable plasmid from Klebsiella pneumoniae carried a class 1 integron containing blaVIM-12, a novel blaVIM-type gene, flanked by two copies of aacA7. blaVIM-12 was clustered between bla-VIM-1 and bla-VIM-2 and ...