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Outbreak of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae endowed with ceftazidime-avibactam resistance mediated through a VEB-1-mutant (VEB-25), Greece, September to October 2019.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 1 Jan 2020
Galani Irene, Karaiskos Ilias, Souli Maria, Papoutsaki Vassiliki, Galani Lamprini, Gkoufa Aikaterini, Antoniadou Anastasia, Giamarellou Helen
Abstract excerpt
From September to October 2019, seven patients colonised or infected with a ceftazidime-avibactam (CZA)-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-2-producing K. pneumoniae were detected in two intensive care units of a Greek general hospital. The outbreak strain was sequence type (ST)147 and co-produced KPC-2 and the novel plasmid-borne Vietnamese extended-spectrum β-lactamase (VEB)-25 harbouring a...
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