Development and validation of a multiplex PCR assay for identification of the epidemic ST-258/512 KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae clone

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-15

  Adler, Amos ^a   Khabra, Efrat ^a   Chmelnitsky, Inna ^a   Giakkoupi, Panagiota ^b   Vatopoulos, Alkiviadis ^b   Mathers, Amy J ^c   Yeh, Anthony J ^c   Sifri, Costi D ^c   De Angelis, Giulia ^d   Tacconelli, Evelina ^d,e   Villegas, Maria Virginia ^f   Quinn, John ^f   Carmeli, Yehuda ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f International Center for Medical Research and Training   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Epidemic clone; KPC; Typing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSPOSASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GREECE; IS 66; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PILV L GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PRP GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EPIDEMIC CLONE; KPC; TYPING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84890116299     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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