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Emergence of NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Morocco.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2011
Poirel Laurent, Benouda Amina, Hays Constantin, Nordmann Patrice
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OBJECTIVES: To analyse the mechanisms responsible for multidrug resistance in three carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates recovered from two hospitalized patients and an outpatient from the same hospital in Rabat, Morocco. METHODS: PCR and sequencing were used to search for β-lactamase genes. Clonal relationships between the isolates were analysed by multilocus sequence typing and PFGE. RESULTS: A...
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