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SUBMITTER: Garbari L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4538545 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garbari Luigi L Busetti Marina M Dolzani Lucilla L Petix Vincenzo V Knezevich Anna A Bressan Raffaela R Gionechetti Fabrizia F Tonin Enrico A EA Lagatolla Cristina C
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20150615 9
Here, we report the first detection of a Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase 2 (KPC-2)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strain belonging to sequence type 833 (ST833), collected in an Italian hospital from a patient coming from South America. Its bla KPC determinant was carried by a ColE1 plasmid, pKBuS13, that showed the Tn4401b::bla KPC-2 transposon inserted into the regulatory region of an Xer site-specific recombination locus. This interfered with the correct resolution of plasmid multimers in ...[more]