Reversion to susceptibility of a carbapenem-resistant clinical isolate of klebsiella pneumoniae producing KPC-3

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2482-2486

  Villa, Laura ^a   Capone, Alessandro ^b   Fortini, Daniela ^a   Dolejska, Monika ^a,c   Rodri'guez, Irene ^a   Taglietti, Fabrizio ^b   De Paolis, Paolo ^d   Petrosillo, Nicola ^b   Carattoli, Alessandra ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^d SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Plasmids; Sequence type 258; Transplant

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ARSENIC; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CARBAPENEMASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COLISTIN; COPPER; FERRIC ION; FOSFOMYCIN; MEROPENEM; PLASMID DNA; QUINOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; SILVER; STREPTOMYCIN; TIGECYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CASE REPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SALMONELLA; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRANSPOSON;

PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE TYPE 258; TRANSPLANT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84886248065     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkt235     Document Type: Article

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