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An in-house real-time PCR was developed to detect the carbapenemase genes IMP, NDM, VIM, KPC and OXA-48 from both bacterial colonies and directly from fecal material. The assay is a multiplex PCR performed in two tubes with NDM, VIM and IMP genes detected in one tube and OXA-48 and KPC genes in the other. Despite the large amount of primers and probes necessary to cover all variants of especially...