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KPC-2-encoding plasmids from Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in Taiwan.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Mar 2014
Chen Ying-Tsong, Lin Jung-Chung, Fung Chang-Phone, Lu Po-Liang, Chuang Yin-Ching, Wu Tsu-Lan, Siu L Kristopher
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Two plasmids carrying bla(KPC-2) isolated from carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli (CR-EC) and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-KP), respectively, were completely sequenced. The CR-KP strain was selected from an outbreak in 2012, and the CR-EC strain was the first blaKPC-2-carrying E. coli identified in the same carbapenem resistance monitoring programme in Taiwan. METHODS:...
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