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Outbreak of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae endowed with ceftazidime-avibactam resistance mediated through a VEB-1-mutant (VEB-25), Greece, September to October 2019

From September to October 2019, seven patients colonised or infected with a ceftazidime-avibactam (CZA)-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-2-producing K. pneumoniae were detected in two intensive care units of a Greek general hospital. The outbreak strain was sequence type (ST)147 a...

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Autores principales: Galani, Irene, Karaiskos, Ilias, Souli, Maria, Papoutsaki, Vassiliki, Galani, Lamprini, Gkoufa, Aikaterini, Antoniadou, Anastasia, Giamarellou, Helen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31992391
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000028