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Genetic Diversity of KPC-Producing Escherichia coli, Klebsiella oxytoca, Serratia marcescens, and Citrobacter freundii Isolates from Argentina.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Sept 2018
De Belder Denise, Lucero Celeste, Rapoport Melina, Rosato Adriana, Faccone Diego, Petroni Alejandro, Pasteran Fernando, Albornoz Ezequiel, Corso Alejandra, Gomez Sonia A
Abstract excerpt
The predominance of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing K. pneumoniae was caused by the spread of ST258 clone. In Latin America, KPC was reported in 2006, with the isolation of genetically unrelated K. pneumoniae in Colombia. Since then, the expansion of blaKPC in either K. pneumoniae ST258 or other Enterobacteriaceae (ETB) species was increasingly reported. In this study, we characterized 89...
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