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. 2023 Jan;44(1):96-98.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2021.394. Epub 2021 Oct 1.

Regional outbreak of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

Bekana K Tadese  1   2 , Anna Nutt  3 , Ifrah Chaudhary  4 , Charlene Offiong  4 , Charles Darkoh  2   5
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Regional outbreak of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

Bekana K Tadese et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Jan.

Abstract

Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing P. aeruginosa (KPC-CRPA) are rare in the United States. An outbreak of KPC-CRPA was investigated in Texas using molecular and epidemiologic methods and 17 cases of KPC-CRPA were identified. The isolates were genetically related and harbored the emerging P. aeruginosa multilocus sequence type 235, the first in the United States.

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Figure 1.
Phylogenetic tree of healthcare-associated KPC-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST-235 isolates collected from the patients. Core-genome multilocus sequence typing was performed on the KPC-CRPA isolates at the CDC laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia.
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