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SUBMITTER: Cai JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3910876 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cai Jia Chang JC Zhang Rong R Hu Yan Yan YY Zhou Hong Wei HW Chen Gong-Xiang GX
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20131209 2
Twenty-two KPC-2-producing Escherichia coli isolates were obtained from three hospitals in Hangzhou, China, from 2007 to 2011. One isolate, with OmpC porin deficiency, exhibited high-level carbapenem resistance. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed that few isolates were indistinguishable or closely related. Multilocus sequence typing indicated that sequence type 131 (ST131) was the predominant type (9 isolates, 40.9%), followed by ST648 (5 isolates), ST405 (2 isolates), ST38 (2 isolates), an ...[more]