| Literature DB >> 26202124 |
Tommaso Giani1, Fabio Arena1, Guendalina Vaggelli2, Viola Conte1, Adriana Chiarelli1, Lucia Henrici De Angelis1, Rossella Fornaini3, Maddalena Grazzini4, Fabrizio Niccolini4, Patrizia Pecile2, Gian Maria Rossolini5.
Abstract
We describe a large hospital outbreak (93 bloodstream infections) of colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing K. pneumoniae isolates which was mirrored by increased colistin consumption. The outbreak was mostly traced to the clonal expansion of an mgrB deletion mutant of an ST512 strain that produced KPC-3.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26202124 PMCID: PMC4572530 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01017-15
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948