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Outbreak of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae endowed with ceftazidime-avibactam resistance mediated through a VEB-1-mutant (VEB-25), Greece, September to October 2019
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsIrene Galaniegalani med.uoa.gr
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Citation style for this article: . Outbreak of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae endowed with ceftazidime-avibactam resistance mediated through a VEB-1-mutant (VEB-25), Greece, September to October 2019. Euro Surveill. 2020;25(3):pii=2000028. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000028 Received: 11 Jan 2020; Accepted: 23 Jan 2020
Abstract
From September to October 2019, seven patients colonised or infected with a ceftazidime-avibactam (CZA)-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-2-producing K. pneumoniae were detected in two intensive care units of a Greek general hospital. The outbreak strain was sequence type (ST)147 and co-produced KPC-2 and the novel plasmid-borne Vietnamese extended-spectrum β-lactamase (VEB)-25 harbouring a K234R substitution associated with CZA resistance. Epidemiological investigations revealed that the resistance was probably acquired by horizontal transmission independently from previous CZA exposure.
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