Article
[Dissemination of the KPC carbapenemase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a hospital in Warsaw, Poland].
Medycyna doswiadczalna i mikrobiologia - 1 Jan 2010
Piekarska Katarzyna, Zacharczuk Katarzyna, Szych Jolanta, Zawidzka Elwira, Wilk Elzbieta, Wardak Sebastian, Jagielski Marek, Gierczyński Rafał
Abstract excerpt
Within the last decade, human infections caused by enterobacteria which produce the Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) became a serious therapeutic and epidemiological problem worldwide. The KPC producing strains of K. pneumoniae broadly disseminated in the USA then spread to Europe. Recently, the KPC-2 was found in Poland. In the presented study we tested 11 ertapenem resistant isolates of K. pneumoniae....
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