TY - JOUR
T1 - First report of Klebsiella quasipneumoniae harboring blaKPC-2 in Saudi Arabia
AU - Hala, Sharif
AU - Antony, Chakkiath Paul
AU - Alshehri, Mohammed
AU - Althaqafi, Abdulhakeem O.
AU - Alsaedi, Asim
AU - Mufti, Areej
AU - Kaaki, Mai
AU - Alhaj-Hussein, Baraa T.
AU - Zowawi, Hosam M.
AU - Al-Amri, Abdulfattah
AU - Pain, Arnab
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: We thank the infectious disease department and the pathology laboratory at King Khaled hospital in the Ministry of the National Guards – Health Affairs western region for their support of surveillance research. We also would like to thank the Bioscience core lab in KAUST for their help with the sequencing. We also thank Fathia Ben Rached, Malak Haidar, Qingtian Guan, and Sara Mfarrej from KAUST Microbial Genomics Laboratory for their technical help. We thank the team of curators at the Institut Pasteur MLST system (Paris, France) for importing novel alleles, profiles and/or isolates at http://bigsdb.pasteur.fr.
PY - 2019/12/19
Y1 - 2019/12/19
N2 - Nosocomial infections caused by multi-drug resistant Enterobacteriaceae are a global public health threat that ought to be promptly identified, reported, and addressed accurately. Many carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae-associated genes have been identified in Saudi Arabia but not the endemic Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemases (KPCs), which are encoded by blaKPC-type genes. KPCs are known for their exceptional spreading potential.
AB - Nosocomial infections caused by multi-drug resistant Enterobacteriaceae are a global public health threat that ought to be promptly identified, reported, and addressed accurately. Many carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae-associated genes have been identified in Saudi Arabia but not the endemic Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemases (KPCs), which are encoded by blaKPC-type genes. KPCs are known for their exceptional spreading potential.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/660869
UR - https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-019-0653-9
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077094202&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s13756-019-0653-9
DO - 10.1186/s13756-019-0653-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 31890159
VL - 8
JO - Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
JF - Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
SN - 2047-2994
IS - 1
ER -
