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Multi-drug carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infection carrying the OXA-48 gene and showing variations in outer membrane protein 36 causing an outbreak in a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Nov 2014
Uz Zaman Taher, Aldrees Mohammed, Al Johani Sameera M, Alrodayyan Maha, Aldughashem Faizah A, Balkhy Hanan H
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the genes of antibiotic resistance among isolates from the first reported carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) outbreak in a tertiary care hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. METHODS: Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed on bacterial isolates using the Microscan Walkaway system (Siemens, Germany) and was confirmed by Etest (AB Biodisk, Sweden). bla-CTX-M, -SHV,...
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