| Literature DB >> 24566171 |
Ryoichi Saito1, Rieko Takahashi, Etsuko Sawabe, Saho Koyano, Yutaka Takahashi, Mari Shima, Hiroto Ushizawa, Toshihide Fujie, Naoki Tosaka, Yuko Kato, Kyoji Moriya, Shuji Tohda, Naoko Tojo, Ryuji Koike, Tetsuo Kubota.
Abstract
We investigated a novel Japanese isolate of sequence type 11 (ST11), the Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-2 (KPC-2)-producing K. pneumoniae strain Kp3018, which was previously obtained from a patient treated at a Brazilian hospital. This strain was resistant to various antibiotic classes, including carbapenems, and harbored the gene blaKPC-2, which was present on the transferable plasmid of ca. 190 kb, in addition to the blaCTX-M-15 gene. Furthermore, the ca. 2.3-kb sequences (ISKpn8-blaKPC-2-ISKpn6-like), encompassing blaKPC-2, were found to be similar to those of K. pneumoniae strains from China.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24566171 PMCID: PMC3993235 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.02072-13
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191