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Leonardo Neves Andrade1, Tânia Curiao, Joseane Cristina Ferreira, Juliana Mucedola Longo, Eduardo Carneiro Clímaco, Roberto Martinez, Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues, Aníbal Basile-Filho, Marco Antônio Evaristo, Pedro F Del Peloso, Vanessa Bley Ribeiro, Afonso Luis Barth, Milena Cristina Paula, Fernando Baquero, Rafael Cantón, Ana Lúcia da Costa Darini, Teresa M Coque.
Abstract
This article reports the spread of bla(KPC-2) in the Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states, facilitated by globally spread K. pneumoniae clonal complex 258 (CC258) clones (ST258, ST11, and ST437) and a diversity of plasmids (IncFII, IncN, and IncL/M, two untypeable plasmids carrying Tn4401a or Tn4401b) successfully disseminated among species of the Enterobacteriaceae (Enterobacter cloacae, Serratia marcescens, and Citrobacter freundii). It also constitutes the first description of sequence type 258 (ST258) in Brazil, which was associated with a nosocomial hospital outbreak in Ribeirao Preto city.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21576442 PMCID: PMC3122403 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01783-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191