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Detection of KPC Carbapenem-Hydrolyzing Enzymes in <i>Enterobacter</i> spp. from Brooklyn, New York

Simona Bratu, David Landman, Maqsood Alam, Elaine Tolentino, John Quale

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy · 2005 · 128 citations · 18 references

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Enterobacter spp. are rarely resistant to carbapenems. In this report, one Enterobacter sp. isolate possessed bla(KPC-3) and two possessed bla(KPC-2). For all three strains, the imipenem MICs were dependent on the inoculum and testing method; two were reported by the clinical laboratories to be carbapenem susceptible. Improved detection methods will be necessary to identify these enzymes.

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