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In vitro activities of colistin and other drugs were tested against 221 Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates that were collected between 2006 and 2007 in nine tertiary care South Korean hospitals from patients with bacteremia. The clonality of colistin-resistant K. pneumoniae (CRKP) isolates was assessed by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). We found that 15 isolates (6.8%) were resistant to colistin. MLST showed that CRKP isolates were nonclonal, with colistin resistance in K. pneumoniae occurring independently and not by clonal spreading.

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PubMed ID:: 19752282

PMC ID:: 2798536

DOI:: 10.1128/AAC.00762-09

ScienceOpen disciplines: Chemistry

Keywords: Anti-Bacterial Agents,pharmacology,Bacteremia,microbiology,Colistin,Cross Infection,Drug Resistance, Bacterial,genetics,Humans,Klebsiella Infections,blood,Klebsiella pneumoniae,drug effects,Microbial Sensitivity Tests,Population Surveillance,Republic of Korea,epidemiology

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