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. 2009 Sep;53(9):4048-50.
doi: 10.1128/AAC.00690-09. Epub 2009 Jul 6.

Emerging Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates coproducing KPC-2 and VIM-1 carbapenemases

Panagiota Giakkoupi, Olga Pappa, Michalis Polemis, Alkiviadis C Vatopoulos, Vivi Miriagou, Anastasia Zioga, Costas C Papagiannitsis, Leonidas S Tzouvelekis

Emerging Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates coproducing KPC-2 and VIM-1 carbapenemases

Panagiota Giakkoupi et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2009 Sep.
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FIG. 1.
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of XbaI-generated macrorestriction fragments of three VIM-1- and KPC-2-coproducing K. pneumoniae (lanes 6 to 8), five VIM-1-producing K. pneumoniae (lanes 1 to 5), four KPC-2-producing K. pneumoniae (lanes 9 to 11 and 14), and two non-carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae (lanes 12 and 13) isolates used for comparison. Underlined designations indicate isolates included also in Table 1. Preparations were run in 1% agarose under 6.0 V/cm for 20 h with a pulsing time linearly ramped from 5 to 55 s. The dendrogram was constructed using the GelCompar II v4.1 software (Applied Maths). The percentages of similarity were calculated with the Dice coefficient (position tolerance, 2.5%) and are represented by the results of the unweighted-pair group method using average linkages.
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