Carbapenem resistance conferred by New Delhi metallo-β-lactamases is mediated by plasmids of diverse incompatibility types harboured by different lineages of Enterobacteriaceae. In this study, we report the draft genome sequence of a ST131 Escherichia coli harbouring the bla gene on an IncHI3 plasmid.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The present study was undertaken to determine the rate of occurrence of Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) among kidney transplant recipients and donors by application of direct detection methods and to understand HCMV infection/disease development among transplanted patients as a prospective study.
Results: Peripheral blood samples collected from 76 kidney donors and 76 recipients from September 2007 to August 2009 were subjected to pp65 antigenemia and Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) assays. Data were analyzed under Group A, B and C.