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KPC-50 Confers Resistance to Ceftazidime-Avibactam Associated with Reduced Carbapenemase Activity.


ABSTRACT: KPC-50 is a KPC-3 variant identified from a Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolate recovered in Switzerland in 2019. Compared to KPC-3, KPC-50 shows (i) a three-amino-acid insertion (Glu-Ala-Val) between amino acids 276 and 277, (ii) an increased affinity to ceftazidime, (iii) a decreased sensitivity to avibactam, explaining the ceftazidime-avibactam resistance, and (iv) an association with a sharp reduction of its carbapenemase activity.

SUBMITTER: Poirel L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7526841 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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KPC-50 Confers Resistance to Ceftazidime-Avibactam Associated with Reduced Carbapenemase Activity.

Poirel Laurent L   Vuillemin Xavier X   Juhas Mario M   Masseron Amandine A   Bechtel-Grosch Ursina U   Tiziani Simon S   Mancini Stefano S   Nordmann Patrice P  

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20200722 8


KPC-50 is a KPC-3 variant identified from a <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> clinical isolate recovered in Switzerland in 2019. Compared to KPC-3, KPC-50 shows (i) a three-amino-acid insertion (Glu-Ala-Val) between amino acids 276 and 277, (ii) an increased affinity to ceftazidime, (iii) a decreased sensitivity to avibactam, explaining the ceftazidime-avibactam resistance, and (iv) an association with a sharp reduction of its carbapenemase activity. ...[more]

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