Members of the globally important CTX-M group of extended-spectrum -lactamases fall into at least six subgroups (CTX-M-1, -2, -8, -9, -25, and KLUC [ 90% amino acid identity between subgroups]), with members of each subgroup differing by one or a few amino acid changes (1). Ancestral members of the different blaCTX-M subgroups appear to have been captured from the chromosomes of different Kluyv...