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KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 in a Children’s Hospital in Poland Cover

KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 in a Children’s Hospital in Poland

Open Access
|Sep 2017

Abstract

Four Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from children hospitalized over 10 months in an intensive care unit in a children’s teaching hospital in Poland were analyzed. All of the isolates belonged to a single pulsotype and sequence type (ST) 11, and produced the KPC-2 carbapenemase and extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) CTX-M-15. They were resistant to a variety of antimicrobials, and their β-lactam resistance patterns were typical for KPC producers. This is one of few cases of identification of KPC (or carbapenemase)-producing K. pneumoniae in a pediatric center in Poland.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.4884 | Journal eISSN: 2544-4646 | Journal ISSN: 1733-1331
Language: English
Page range: 401 - 404
Submitted on: Mar 24, 2017
Accepted on: Apr 3, 2017
Published on: Sep 27, 2017
Published by: Polish Society of Microbiologists
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2017 MONIKA MACHULSKA, ANNA BARANIAK, IWONA ŻAK, KATARZYNA BOJARSKA, DOROTA ŻABICKA, IWONA SOWA-SIERANT, WALERIA HRYNIEWICZ, MAREK GNIADKOWSKI, published by Polish Society of Microbiologists
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