Plasmid-mediated KPC-2 in a Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate from China.

ABSTRACT: A carbapenem-resistant isolate of Klebsiella pneumoniae producing class A carbapenemase KPC-2 was identified in Zhejiang, China. The KPC-2 gene was located on an approximately 60-kb plasmid in a genetic environment partially different from that of blaKPC-2 in the isolates from the United States and Colombia.

SUBMITTER: Wei ZQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1797727 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature