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Plasmid-encoded OXA-48 carbapenemase in Escherichia coli from Israel
21 Dec 2010
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Sir, Carbapenem resistance among Enterobacteriaceae in Israel emerged in 2004 and was observed mainly in Klebsiella pneumoniae, but also in Enterobacter species and Escherichia coli. Since its emergence, carbapenem resistance in these species, both in clinical and colonizing isolates, has been rendered by the production of plasmid-mediated K. pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC). In late 2007, a woman in her early...
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