Clonal complex 258, the most frequently found multilocus sequence type complex in KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated in Brazilian hospitals

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4563-4564

  Nicoletti, Adriana G ^a   Fehlberg, Lorena C C ^a   Picão, Renata C ^a,b   Machado, Antônia De O ^a   Gales, Ana C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; POLYMYXIN B;

AGAR DILUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; CLONAL COMPLEX 258; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BETA-LACTAMASES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84864390286     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00219-12     Document Type: Letter

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