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. 2014 Nov 8:3:34-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2014.09.001. eCollection 2015 Jan.

Emergence of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST512 isolated from cerebrospinal fluid of a child in Algeria

S Bakour  1 , F Sahli  2 , A Touati  3 , J-M Rolain  4
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Emergence of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST512 isolated from cerebrospinal fluid of a child in Algeria

S Bakour et al. New Microbes New Infect. .

Abstract

We report class A carbapenemase (KPC)-3-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis in a 6-month-old child in Algeria. Multilocus sequence typing showed that the sequence type obtained corresponded to ST512, an allelic single-locus variant of the pandemic ST258 widely distributed in KPC producers from Europe. To our knowledge, this is the first report of KPC-3-producing K. pneumoniae ST512 in a North African country.

Keywords: Algeria; Carbapenem resistance; KPC; Klebsiella pneumoniae; ST512.

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