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Molecular epidemiology of OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in France.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Dec 2014
Liapis E, Pantel A, Robert J, Nicolas-Chanoine M-H, Cavalié L, van der Mee-Marquet N, de Champs C, Aissa N, Eloy C, Blanc V, Guyeux C, Hocquet D, Lavigne J-P, Bertrand X
Abstract excerpt
We characterized 53 OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (OXA-48-Kp) isolated between 2011 and 2013 in 21 French hospitals. All the isolates were genotyped using MLST and PFGE and the population structure of the species was determined by a nucleotide-based analysis of the entire K. pneumoniae MLST database. Most of the OXA-48-Kp isolates also produced CTX-M-15 and remained susceptible to imipenem and meropenem....
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