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Frequency of BKC-1-Producing Klebsiella Species Isolates.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Aug 2016
Martins Willames M B S, Nicoletti Adriana G, Santos Silvia R, Sampaio Jorge L M, Gales Ana C
Abstract excerpt
BKC-1 is a new class A serine carbapenemase that was recently identified in Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates. The principal objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency of blaBKC-1 by testing a collection of Klebsiella isolates. Only 2 of 635 Klebsiella isolates (0.3%) carried blaBKC-1 The two BKC-1-producing isolates belonged to clonal complex 442 and possessed identical pulsed-field gel...
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