Multi-drug carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infection carrying the OXA-48 gene and showing variations in outer membrane protein 36 causing an outbreak in a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Author(s) -
Taher uz Zaman,
Mohammed Aldrees,
Sameera M. Al Johani,
Maha Alrodayyan,
Faizah A. Aldughashem,
Hanan H. Balkhy
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2014.05.021
Subject(s) - klebsiella pneumoniae , outbreak , multi drug resistant , microbiology and biotechnology , tertiary care , medicine , carbapenem , drug resistance , gene , virology , biology , emergency medicine , escherichia coli , antibiotics , genetics
To investigate the genes of antibiotic resistance among isolates from the first reported carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) outbreak in a tertiary care hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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