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. 2009 Jan;53(1):292-4.
doi: 10.1128/AAC.00931-08. Epub 2008 Oct 13.

KPC-2-producing Enterobacter cloacae and pseudomonas putida coinfection in a liver transplant recipient

Jason W Bennett  1 , Monica L Herrera, James S Lewis 2nd, Brian W Wickes, James H Jorgensen
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KPC-2-producing Enterobacter cloacae and pseudomonas putida coinfection in a liver transplant recipient

Jason W Bennett et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2009 Jan.

Abstract

Carbapenemases are among the newest resistance mechanisms to emerge in some gram-negative bacteria. We describe bacteremia in a critically ill liver transplant recipient infected with KPC-2-producing Enterobacter cloacae and Pseudomonas putida. Although this enzyme has been previously described in Enterobacter spp., this is the first report of KPC carbapenemase in P. putida.

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FIG. 1.
Modified Hodge test using a 10-μg imipenem disk. Isolate A (K. pneumoniae, ATCC 700603) does not produce a carbapenemase and is negative by this test. Isolates B (P. putida), C (E. cloacae), and D (K. pneumoniae, CAP D05-07) all produce KPC-2 and are positive by this test.
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