| Literature DB >> 15504876 |
Ashfaque Hossain1, M J Ferraro, R M Pino, R B Dew, E S Moland, T J Lockhart, K S Thomson, R V Goering, N D Hanson.
Abstract
A strain of an Enterobacter sp. with reduced susceptibility to imipenem, which produced a plasmid-mediated class A carbapenem-hydrolyzing enzyme, KPC-2 beta-lactamase, was isolated from a patient with sepsis at a Boston hospital. This is the first report of the production of a plasmid-encoded KPC-2 beta-lactamase by an Enterobacter sp.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15504876 PMCID: PMC525415 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.11.4438-4440.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191