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SUBMITTER: Doi Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4470611 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine 20150202 1
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) were almost nonexistent up to the 1990s, but are today encountered routinely in hospitals and other healthcare facilities in many countries including the United States. KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae was the first to emerge and spread globally and is endemic in the United States, Israel, Greece, and Italy. Recently, NDM-producing Enterobacteriaceae and OXA-48-producing K. pneumoniae appear to be disseminating from South Asia and Northern Afri ...[more]