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Draft genome sequence of a GES-5-producing Serratia marcescens isolated in southern Brazil
Carolina Silva Nodari1, Marina Siebert2, Ursula da Silveira Matte3
1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil; Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Laboratório de Pesquisa em Resistência Bacteriana (LABRESIS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Abstract:
Serratia marcescens is a Gram-negative rod intrinsically resistant to polymyxins and usually associated with wound, respiratory and urinary tract infections. The whole genome of the first GES-5-producing S. marcescens isolated from a Brazilian patient was sequenced using Ion Torrent PGM System. Besides blaGES-5, we were able to identify genes encoding for other β-lactamases, for aminoglycoside modifying enzymes and for an efflux pump to tetracyclines.

