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Characterization of Extensively Drug-Resistant or Pandrug-Resistant Sequence Type 147 and 101 OXA-48-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Causing Bloodstream Infections in Patients in an Intensive Care Unit.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Jul 2018
Avgoulea Kalliope, Di Pilato Vincenzo, Zarkotou Olympia, Sennati Samanta, Politi Leda, Cannatelli Antonio, Themeli-Digalaki Katerina, Giani Tommaso, Tsakris Athanassios, Rossolini Gian Maria, Pournaras Spyros
Abstract excerpt
Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae causes important health care-associated infections worldwide. An outbreak of sequence type 11 (ST11) OXA-48-producing K. pneumoniae (OXA-48-Kp) isolates occurred in Tzaneio Hospital in 2012 and was contained until 2014, when OXA-48-Kp reemerged. The present study involved 19 bloodstream infection (BSI) OXA-48-Kp isolates recovered from 19 intensive care unit (ICU)...
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