Klebsiella pneumoniae is a Gram-negative bacterium of clinical importance, which colonizes
mucosal surfaces and, from there, gains access to other tissues to establish severe …

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a Gram-negative bacterium of clinical importance, due to its
resistance to several antibiotic classes. We have identified 4 clinical isolates of K …

Carbapenem-hydrolysing b-lactamase KPC-producing isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae
are a major problem and concern. The first KPC-producing isolate was K. pneumoniae from …

In March 2014, during a period of active surveillance in five neonatal intensive care units
(NICUs) of Palermo, Italy, three carbapenem-nonsusceptible isolates of K. pneumoniae (CR …

Gram-negative pathogens producing carbapenemases represent an alarming clinical threat
with serious effects on patient outcomes (3, 7). In 2001, Yigit et al.(11) reported a novel …

This article reports an outbreak of colonization by Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-
producing K. pneumoniae (KPC-Kp) sequence type (ST) 258 in a neonatal intensive care …

Starting in May 2007, an ongoing outbreak of infections due to carbapenem resistant KPC-2-
producing Klebsiella pneumoniae occurred in a tertiary care hospital in Crete (Greece). The …

ABSTRACT From March 2009 to May 2009, 24 carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella
pneumoniae isolates were recovered from 16 patients hospitalized in an Italian intensive …

Background. We describe the emergence and spread of Klebsiella pneumoniae
carbapenemase 2 (KPC-2)–producing K. pneumoniae at a Greek University hospital …

Plasmidic KPC-lactamases in gram-negative pathogens are of the highest clinical and
epidemiologic concern, conferring resistance to all-lactams, including carbapenems (15 …