Surveillance in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Allowed the Isolation of a Strain of VIM-Producing .

Here, we describe the isolation of a strain of the genus encoding a VIM carbapenemase, the first to our knowledge. The strain, isolated from a rectal swab of a 10-day-old newborn admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), was identified through whole-genome sequencing analyses as . The strain harbored the carbapenemases gene . The prompt application of contact measures and the isolation of the newborn prevented the dissemination of VIM-producing and of the plasmid carrying the VIM-1 gene to other newborns.