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Case Reports
. 2017 Jun 27;61(7):e00317-17.
doi: 10.1128/AAC.00317-17. Print 2017 Jul.

Emergence of the Plasmid-Mediated mcr-1 Gene in Clinical KPC-2-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 392 in Brazil

Caio Augusto Martins Aires  1 , Orlando Carlos da Conceição-Neto  1 , Thamirys Rachel Tavares E Oliveira  1 , Carolina Frizzera Dias  2 , Lara Feital Montezzi  3 , Renata Cristina Picão  3 , Rodolpho Mattos Albano  4 , Marise Dutra Asensi  1 , Ana Paula D'Alincourt Carvalho-Assef  5
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Case Reports

Emergence of the Plasmid-Mediated mcr-1 Gene in Clinical KPC-2-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 392 in Brazil

Caio Augusto Martins Aires et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Klebsiella pneumoniae; blaKPC-2; colistin resistance; mcr-1.

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