Arrival of Klebsiella pneumoniae producing KPC carbapenemase in the United Kingdom
- 10 September 2008
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
- Vol. 62 (6), 1261-1264
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkn396
Abstract
Background KPC-type carbapenemases are increasingly prevalent in parts of the USA and Israel and are an emerging concern in South America, Europe and China. We investigated the UK’s first two KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates.Keywords
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