Prevalence and Genetic Characterization ofblaCTX-MAmongKlebsiella pneumoniaeIsolates Collected in an Intensive Care Unit in Brazil
- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Chemotherapy
- Vol. 20 (5) , 600-603
- https://doi.org/10.1179/joc.2008.20.5.600
Abstract
Thirteen (44.8%) CTX-M-2-producing K. pneumoniae clinical isolates were identified among 29 strains collected from single patients with serious infection hospitalized in an intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. These isolates belonged to 9 different typing clusters and showed great diversity of plasmid content. Their bla(CTX-M-2) was carried in an ISCR1/sul1-type integron structure located in transferable plasmids of different sizes or in the chromosome.Keywords
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