Emergence of clonally related Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates of sequence type 258 producing KPC-2 carbapenemase in Belgium

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 361-362

  Bogaerts, P ^a   Montesinos, I ^b   Rodriguez Villalobos, H ^b   Blairon, L ^c   Deplano, A ^b   Glupczynski, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c SAINT PIERRE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

K. pneumoniae; ST258; lactamases

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DORIPENEM; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE CARBAPENEMASE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TEMOCILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BELGIUM; BLADDER TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PELVIS CANCER; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; URINE CULTURE;

EID: 77950285099     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkp453     Document Type: Letter

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