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SUBMITTER: Fortini D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4704230 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20151102 1
A carbapenem-resistant sequence type 512 (ST512) Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase 3 (KPC-3)-producing K. pneumoniae strain showing a novel variant plasmid content was isolated in Palermo, Italy, in 2014. ST512 is a worldwide successful clone associated with the spread of bla(KPC) genes located on the IncFIIk pKpQIL plasmid. In our ST512 strain, the bla(KPC-3) gene was unusually located on an IncX3 plasmid, whose complete sequence was determined. Two copies of bla(KPC-3)::Tn4401a caused by int ...[more]