African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 4 (3), pp. 286-288, March 2005          
ISSN 1684–5315 © 2005 Academic Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Identification of metallo-b-lactamase from a clinical isolate at Saint Camillle Hospital Center of Ouagadougou/ Burkina Faso

Boukaré Zeba*, Pere Jacques Simporé**,  Odile G. Nacoulma*,  Jean-Marie Frère***

¹Laboratoire de Chimie et de Biochimie Appliquée (Enzymologie) /UFR-SVT/ Université de  Ouagadougou/     BurkinaFaso 03 BP 7021 03 Ouagadougou.

² Saint Camille Hospital center/ Ouagadougou/ Burkina Faso

³ Enzymology/ Center of  Protein Engineering/ Ulg/ Belgium.

*Corresponding author.  E-mail : b_zeba@yahoo.fr.

Accepted 23 December, 2004

A metallo-b-lactamase was identified from a clinical sample. The host bacteria was identified to be Chryseobacterium Indologenes. This preliminary characterization of the enzyme is reported here.

Key words: b-lactamase , metallo-b-lactamase,Chyseobacterium Indologenes, Ouagadougou.