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SUBMITTER: Shu L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6395905 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shu Lingbin L Dong Ning N Lu Jun J Zheng Zhiwei Z Hu Jie J Zeng Wenqing W Sun Qiaoling Q Chan Edward Wai-Chi EW Zhou Hongwei H Hu Fupin F Chen Sheng S Zhang Rong R
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20190226 3
This study reported the clonal dissemination of OXA-232-producing sequence type 15 (ST15) carbapenem-resistant <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> among elderly patients in China. All patients were immunocompromised, suffered from multiple underlying diseases, and were hospitalized for a prolonged period; however, they slowly recovered on antimicrobial therapy. The <i>bla</i><sub>OXA-232</sub> gene was in a 6.1-kb ColKP3-type nonconjugative plasmid. The strains displayed a multidrug resistance phenotyp ...[more]