| Literature DB >> 22964247 |
Carlos Hidalgo-Grass1, Gabriela Warburg, Violeta Temper, Shmuel Benenson, Allon E Moses, Colin Block, Jacob Strahilevitz.
Abstract
A bla(KPC-9) carbapenemase variant was discovered in isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli from a single patient. It differed from bla(KPC-3) by one amino acid substitution (Val239Ala). The K. pneumoniae isolate was typed as ST258, as was the epidemic Israeli KPC-3 clone. bla(KPC-9) was found on a plasmid indistinguishable from pKpQIL that carries bla(KPC-3) in the epidemic clone. Compared to KPC-3, KPC-9 conferred less resistance to carbapenems and higher resistance to ceftazidime.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22964247 PMCID: PMC3486598 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01156-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191