Detection of Citrobacter koseri carrying beta-lactamase KPC-2 in a hospitalised patient, Greece, July 2011

A Mavroidi; I Neonakis; A Liakopoulos; A Papaioannou; M Ntala; F Tryposkiadis; V Miriagou; E Petinaki

doi:10.2807/ese.16.41.19990-en

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Detection of Citrobacter koseri carrying beta-lactamase KPC-2 in a hospitalised patient, Greece, July 2011
A Mavroidi¹ , I Neonakis^1,2 , A Liakopoulos¹ , A Papaioannou¹ , M Ntala³ , F Tryposkiadis³ , V Miriagou⁴ , E Petinaki¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Department of Microbiology, University Hospital of Larissa, Greece ² Department of Microbiology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece ³ Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Larissa, Greece ⁴ Laboratory of Bacteriology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

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Citation style for this article: Mavroidi A, Neonakis I, Liakopoulos A, Papaioannou A, Ntala M, Tryposkiadis F, Miriagou V, Petinaki E. Detection of Citrobacter koseri carrying beta-lactamase KPC-2 in a hospitalised patient, Greece, July 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(41):pii=19990. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.16.41.19990-en Received: 26 Sept 2011

Abstract

This report describes the detection of Citrobacter koseri carrying K. pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC-2) isolated in July 2011 from a Greek patient, who was also colonised by a Klebsiella pneumoniae strain co-producing KPC-2 and Verona integron-encoded metallo-beta-lactamase (VIM)-1.