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. 2018 Sep 24;62(10):e01076-18. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01076-18

TABLE 1.

Table of Firsts: the dates, organisms, and locations of the first of a series of β-lactamase-producing isolates with long-term clinical significance

Original β-lactamase name (currently recognized name) Yr of first verified isolation Organism Location First description in literature Reference(s)
Penicillinase (chromosomal AmpC) 1940 Bacillus coli (Escherichia coli) England 1940 1
Penicillinase 1942 Staphylococcus aureus England 1942 65
OXA 1962 Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, Escherichia colia England 1965 87, 215
1967
TEM-1 1963 Escherichia coli Greece 1965 85
SHV-1 1972 Klebsiella pneumoniae Unknown 1972 216
Transferable ESBL (SHV-2) Pre-1983 K. pneumoniae Germany 1983 217
Serine (class A, group 2f) carbapenemase (SME-1) 1982 Serratia marcescens England (London) USA (Minnesota) 1990 148, 150
1985 1986
Plasmid-encoded AmpC (MIR-1) 1988 K. pneumoniae USA (Massachusetts) 1990 141
Plasmid-encoded MBL (IMP-1) 1988 Pseudomonas aeruginosa Japan 1991 151
Inhibitor-resistant TEM (TEM-30) 1991 E. coli France (Paris) 1994 118
KPC-type (KPC-2) 1996 K. pneumoniae USA (North Carolina) 2000 158
NDM-1 2006 K. pneumoniae India (New Delhi) 2009 175, 176
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Anderson and Datta described a Salmonella Typhimurium isolate from 1962 that later was confirmed to produce the OXA-2 enzyme (215). Egawa et al. described an E. coli isolate in 1967 that produced the OXA-1 enzyme (87).