Antimicrobial treatment and containment measures for an extremely drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST101 isolate carrying pKPN101-IT, a novel fully sequenced bla(KPC-2) plasmid.
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Frasson I, Lavezzo E, Franchin E, Toppo S, Barzon L, Cavallaro A, Richter SN, Palu G
Antimicrobial treatment and containment measures for an extremely drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST101 isolate carrying pKPN101-IT, a novel fully sequenced bla(KPC-2) plasmid.
J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Nov;50(11):3768-72. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01892-12. Epub 2012 Sep 12.
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An extremely drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate, sequence type ST101, was isolated from a patient in Italy. We describe antibiotic treatment, measures to clear and contain the infection, and a complete sequence analysis of a novel large plasmid, pKPN101-IT, harboring the bla(KPC-2) gene and arising from the threatening recombination of different worldwide-distributed backbones.