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Mariagrazia Perilli1, Carlo Bottoni2, Eugenio Pontieri2, Bernardetta Segatore2, Giuseppe Celenza2, Domenico Setacci2, Pierangelo Bellio2, Roberto Strom3, Gianfranco Amicosante2.
Abstract
In this study, 20 carbapenem-resistant environmental Klebsiella pneumoniae strains were found to correlate with 18 clinical K. pneumoniae isolates from the teaching hospital of L'Aquila city, Italy. All strains analysed by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) were included in the same clone (ST512), and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis demonstrated a genetic relationship between the clinical isolates and most environmental strains. Both environmental and clinical strains harboured the same mobile genetic elements: transposon Tn4401a including a blaKPC-3 determinant; and a class 1 integron with the gene cassette aadA2. Copyright ÂEntities:
Keywords: Carbapenemases; Environment; Integrons; KPC; Transposons; Wastewater
Year: 2013 PMID: 27873616 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2013.07.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Glob Antimicrob Resist ISSN: 2213-7165 Impact factor: 4.035