Volume 23, Number 2—February 2017
Dispatch
Nosocomial Infections with IMP-19−Producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa Linked to Contaminated Sinks, France
Lucie Amoureux, Karena Riedweg, Angélique Chapuis, Julien Bador, Eliane Siebor, André Péchinot, Marie-Lorraine Chrétien, Claire de Curraize, and Catherine Neuwirth
Figure 3
Figure 3. Diversity of integrons harboring blaIMP-19 isolated from patients with nosocomial infections linked to contaminated sinks, France. Arrows indicate direction of transcription. a–f, suI-type class 1 integrons; g, Tn402−like class 1 integron. aac(6′)-Ib, aminoglycoside 6′-N-acetyltransferase; aadA13, aminoglycoside adenyltransferase ANT(3′); aadB, aminoglycoside-2′′-O-nucleotidyltransferase; blaIMP-19, metallo-β-lactamase IMP-19; fused qacG, aminoglycoside 6′-N-acetyltransferase; intl1, class 1 integron integrase; orf5, open reading frame 5; qacEΔ1, multidrug exporter; sul1, dihydropteroate synthase; tniQ, transposition protein; tniR, resolvase.
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