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A carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae epidemic clone in Jerusalem: sequence type 512 carrying a plasmid encoding aac(6')-Ib.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Apr 2012
Warburg Gabriela, Hidalgo-Grass Carlos, Partridge Sally R, Tolmasky Marcelo E, Temper Violeta, Moses Allon E, Block Colin, Strahilevitz Jacob
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OBJECTIVES: We characterized distinctive features of a hypertransmissible carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) clone that emerged at Hadassah Hospital, Ein-Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel, in 2006. METHODS: Eleven CRKP isolated at Hadassah Hospital during 2005-09 were examined by antimicrobial susceptibility testing, PFGE and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Plasmids were analysed by conjugation,...
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