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SUBMITTER: Miriagou V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC152505 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miriagou Vivi V Tzouvelekis Leonidas S LS Rossiter Shannon S Tzelepi Eva E Angulo Frederick J FJ Whichard Jean M JM
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20030401 4
A Salmonella enterica serotype Cubana isolate exhibiting resistance to most beta-lactam antibiotics, including oxyimino-cephalosporins and imipenem, was isolated from a 4-year-old boy with gastroenteritis in Maryland. beta-Lactam resistance was mediated by a conjugative plasmid that encoded KPC-2, a class A carbapenemase previously found in a Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate from the Maryland area as well. Sequence analysis of the flanking regions indicated a potential association of bla(KPC-2) wit ...[more]