Dissemination of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae harboring KPC-carrying plasmid pKPC_P16, a pKPC_LK30 variant, in northern Taiwan
The prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) was up to 30% between 2014 and 2016 in the study hospital. Of these 77 CRKP isolates, 22 isolates with sequence type ST11 carried the new pKPC_P16 plasmid, a pKPC_LK30 variant, and were widely disseminated between 2014 and 2015 in northern Taiwan.
Source: Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease - Category: Microbiology Authors: Jiann-Yuan Chen, Ming-Li Liou, Han-Yueh Kuo, Chia-Wei Lu, Yi-Chieh Lai, Yun-Yu Lin, Chang-Hua Chen Tags: Note Source Type: research