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European dissemination of a single OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae clone.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Dec 2011
Potron A, Kalpoe J, Poirel L, Nordmann P
Abstract excerpt
A Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate with decreased susceptibility to carbapenems was isolated in April 2011 in a hospital in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and later found to be the source of an important outbreak in a Rotterdam hospital. The strain, belonging to sequence type (ST) 395, carried the bla(OXA-48) gene located onto a c 62-kb conjugative plasmid, together with the extended-spectrum β-lactamase gene...
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