A Small KPC-2-Producing Plasmid in Klebsiella pneumoniae: Implications for Diversified Vehicles of Carbapenem Resistance

A Small KPC-2-Producing Plasmid in Klebsiella pneumoniae: Implications for Diversified Vehicles of Carbapenem Resistance

ABSTRACT The convergence of hypervirulence to carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae (CRKP) in a highly transmissible ST11 clone poses a great challenge to public health and anti-infection therapy. Recently, we revealed that an expanding repertoire of diversified KPC-2-producing plasmids occurs in these...

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Main Authors: Qiwei Chen, Lizhang Liu, Xiaofang Hu, Xu Jia, Xiaowei Gong, Youjun Feng, Man Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-06-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
Klebsiella pneumoniae
K. pneumoniae carbapenemase-2
carbapenem resistance
carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae
pK186_KPC
small plasmid
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02688-21

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