| Literature DB >> 20463153 |
Athanassios Tsakris1, Evangelia Voulgari, Aggeliki Poulou, Maria Kimouli, Spyros Pournaras, Kyriaki Ranellou, Olga Kosmopoulou, Dimitra Petropoulou.
Abstract
Three patients admitted to a Greek hospital were infected with Serratia marcescens isolates that exhibited reduced susceptibility to carbapenems and harbored Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) enzymes. In two of these cases, the patients were initially infected by carbapenem-susceptible S. marcescens isolates. Molecular typing and plasmid analysis suggested that all three patients had clonally indistinguishable isolates of S. marcescens that acquired a plasmid-mediated bla(KPC-2) gene during the hospitalization.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20463153 PMCID: PMC2897482 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00264-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948