Outbreak of OXA-48 carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Greece involving an ST11 clone | Zendy

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Outbreak of OXA-48 carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Greece involving an ST11 clone

Author(s) -

Evangelia Voulgari,

Olympia Zarkotou,

Kyriaki Ranellou,

Drosos E. Karageorgopoulos,

Georgia Vrioni,

Vasiliki Mamali,

Katerina Themeli-Digalaki,

Athanassios Tsakris

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dks356

Subject(s) - klebsiella pneumoniae , multilocus sequence typing , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , pulsed field gel electrophoresis , ertapenem , plasmid , outbreak , molecular epidemiology , clone (java method) , gene , escherichia coli , virology , genetics , genotype

First detected in Enterobacteriaceae isolates in Turkey, the OXA-48 carbapenemase has gradually disseminated in the wider Mediterranean area and Europe. Despite reports from other European regions, until now no such isolates have been detected in Greece. We describe the characteristics of the first outbreak caused by OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Greece.

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