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Katarzyna Zacharczuk1, Katarzyna Piekarska, Jolanta Szych, Elwira Zawidzka, Agnieszka Sulikowska, Sebastian Wardak, Marek Jagielski, Rafal Gierczynski.
Abstract
A Klebsiella pneumoniae epidemic strain that coproduced carbapenemase KPC-2 (K. pneumoniae carbapenemase 2) and 16S rRNA methylase ArmA has emerged in Poland. Four nonduplicate isolates from patients in a hospital in Warsaw, Poland, were found to carry the bla(KPC-2) and armA genes on ca. 50-kb and 90-kb plasmids, respectively. Tn4401 with a 100-bp deletion in the variable region was detected in all the isolates. XbaI pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) revealed 93.2% similarity of the isolates. All the isolates were resistant to carbapenems and 4,6-disubstituted 2-deoxystreptamines.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20956599 PMCID: PMC3019640 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00386-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191