For the last four years Greece has faced a large number of infections, mainly in the intensive
care units (ICU), due to carbapenem-resistant, VIM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae. The …

Enterobacteriaceae producing carbapenemases, such as KPC or metallo-β-lactamases
(MBLs), have emerged on several continents. Phenotypic tests are urgently needed for their …

Objective. To determine risk factors for bloodstream infections (BSIs) caused by Klebsiella
pneumoniae producing metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) or K. pneumoniae carbapenemases …

Seventeen Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates carrying the bla VIM-1 metallo-β-
lactamase gene were collected in the intensive care units of three hospitals in Athens …

VIM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strains, increasingly isolated in Greece since 2002,
constitute the majority of multiresistant clinical isolates of this species found in most Greek …

Objectives To investigate the first Italian outbreak of bloodstream infections caused by
multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae producing metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) …

Susceptibility results with low reproducibility by the same or different methods have been
observed for metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae. Eighteen VIM-1 …

Objectives To determine the current frequency and study the characteristics of VIM-1-
producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from bloodstream infections in Greek hospitals …

We report 570 carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (CPKP) clinical isolates in
a 1,040-bed Greek tertiary hospital during 2004 to 2010. The first CPKP (VIM-producing) …

Despite infection control measures, an important increase in the extended-spectrum β-
lactamase (ESBL)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae incidence density occurred in our …