OXA-258 from Achromobacter ruhlandii: a Species Specific Marker

PAPALIA M.; ALMUZARA M.; CEJAS D.; TRAGLIA G.; RAMIREZ M.S.; GALANTERNIK L.; VAY C.; GUTKIND G.; RADICE M.

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY

Lugar: Washington; Año: 2013 vol. 51 p. 1602 - 1605

0095-1137

A new blaOXA-258 gene is described as species specific taxonomic marker for Achromobacter ruhlandii isolates (all recovered from cystic fibrosis patients). Even if the OXA-258 differs from OXA-114 variants, isolates could be misidentified as A. xiloxosidans by the amplification of an inner fragment from the OXA coding gene. A robust Identification of A. ruhlandii can be achieved by sequencing this single OXA gene as well as a more laborious recently proposed MLST scheme