Two Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates Producing a blaKPC-2 Carbapenemase from a Canadian Patient.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
; 63(7)2019 07.
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| ID: mdl-30988151
ABSTRACT
This report describes two hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates that produced K. pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC), which were identified from a rectal swab and a urine culture upon hospital admission. The patient had recently traveled to Greece, where he was hospitalized. The isolates were sequence type 86 and contained an IncHI1B IncFIBK hypervirulent plasmid and an IncFIIK plasmid harboring KPC.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Infecções por Klebsiella
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Klebsiella pneumoniae
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Aged80
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2019
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Article