Introduction: The indiscriminate use of antibiotics associated with other situations has
revealed a considerable increase in outbreaks caused by microorganisms resistant to …

Objectives To identify risk factors for KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC-Kp)
enteric colonization at intensive care unit (ICU) admission. Recently, the emergence and …

Objectives We analysed the microbiological traits and population structure of KPC-
producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates collected in Spain between 2012 and 2014. We also …

KPC-type carbapenemases are emerging resistance determinants in Klebsiella
pneumoniae and other gram-negative pathogens, being an increasingly important …

Abstract In August 2010, an 85-year-old woman was hospitalized in a southern Italian
hospital for heart failure syndrome. She was then transferred to the cardiology ward of …

In 2008, an increase in the prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae was
noted in a 286-bed tertiary case hospital in Colombia, where 84 patients (32 infected and 52 …

A prospective observational study of 226 intensive care unit (ICU) patients was conducted
during a 25-month period. Rectal samples were taken at day 1, 4, and 7 and, afterwards …

In 2008 isolates of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC-KPN) were detected for the
first time at Hospital Heliópolis, São Paulo, Brazil. The aim of this study was to characterize …

Exposure network analysis and molecular epidemiologic methods were used to analyze the
emergence and regional spread of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase–producing …

Here we report a retrospective clinical and molecular study conducted in a tertiary care
facility in southern Madrid, Spain, from January 2009 to February 2014 to investigate the …