Update of the molecular epidemiology of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Brazil: spread of clonal complex 11 (ST11, ST437 and ST340) - Concepedia

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Update of the molecular epidemiology of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Brazil: spread of clonal complex 11 (ST11, ST437 and ST340)

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2012

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Pedro Silvino Pereira, Carlos Felipe Machado de Araújo, Liliane Miyuki Seki, Viviane Zahner, Ana Paula D’Alincourt Carvalho-Assef, Marise Dutra Asensi

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Abstract

In Brazil, the spread of bla(KPC-2) is occurring due to dispersion of Tn4401 'b', carried by IncN plasmids of 40 kb, and mainly the dissemination of CC11, with ST437 and ST11 playing an important role.

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