Table 3: Association between genes of resistance to β-lactams, geographical areas of occurrence and clinical isolates, in American continent.

America
Country Genes                  Isolated References
(N. reports)*                  (N. reports)*
Argentina blaTEM-10                  Bloodstream (2) (Paterson et al. 2003) [55]
blaSHV-5                  Surgical site (Pasteran et al. 2008) [67]
blaSHV-2    
blaTEM-12    
blaCTX-M-2    
blaKPC-2    
Brazil blaKPC-2 (2) Bloodstream (3) (Peirano et al.2009) [68]
blaSHV-1 Urine (3) (Pereira et al. 2013) [69]
blaSHV-11 Abdominal fluid (Tollentino et al. 2011) [70]
blaSHV-12 (2) Respiratory tract secretion (Andrade et al. 2014) [48]
blaSHV-31 Tracheal secretion (2)  
blaSHV-38 Venous catheter  
blaCTX-M-2 (2)    
blaCTX-M-15    
blaOXA-9    
blaTEM-1(2)    
blaCTX-M-1    
blaCTX-M-8    
     
Canada blaCTX-M-2 Bloodstream (Denisuik et al. 2013) [71]
blaSHV-11 Urine
blaCTX-M-3 Respiratory tract
blaCTX-M-14 Secretions
blaSHV-1  
blaTEM-1  
blaCTX-M-15  
blaOXA-1  
blaSHV-2  
Mexico blaSHV-1 Bloodstream (Miranda et al. 2004) [73]
blaSHV-2 Cerebrospinal fluid
blaSHV-5  
United States blaCTX-M-1 Bloodstream (Ginn et al. 2014) [51]
blaCTX-M-9 Urine (Mathers et al. 2013) [72]
blaSHV Perirectal swab (2)  
blaSHV-5 Fluid from abdominal drain  
blaSHV-12    
blaTEM-10    
blaTEM (2)    
blaOXA-10    
blaOXA-48    
blaOXA-181    

1*Number of times the gene was identified.