Volume 16, Number 9—September 2010
Research
Worldwide Diversity of Klebsiella pneumoniae That Produce β-Lactamase blaKPC-2 Gene1
Gaëlle Cuzon, Thierry Naas
, HaVy Truong, Maria-Virginia Villegas, Karin T. Wisell, Yehuda Carmeli, Ana. C. Gales, Shiri Navon-Venezia, John P. Quinn, and Patrice Nordmann
, HaVy Truong, Maria-Virginia Villegas, Karin T. Wisell, Yehuda Carmeli, Ana. C. Gales, Shiri Navon-Venezia, John P. Quinn, and Patrice NordmannTable 3
Plasmid analysis, pulsotype, and sequence type of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from 5 countries*
| Isolate no. | Isolate name | Plasmids |
PFGE type | MLST |
ST | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Size, kb | Inc | gap | infB | mdh | pgi | phoE | rpo | tonB | ||||
| 1 | YC | 80 | FiiAS | A | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 79 | 258 |
| 2 | GR | 80 | FiiAS | A | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 79 | 258 |
| 3 | K271 | 80 | FiiAS | A | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 79 | 258 |
| 4 | KN2303 | 75, 35 | N | B | 2 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 337 |
| 5 | KN633 | 12 | ND | C | 17 | 19 | 22† | 39 | 34† | 21 | 52 | 338 |
| 6 | INC H1521-6 | 75 | L/M | D | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| 7 | INC H1516-6 | 75 | L/M | D | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| 8 | HPTU 27635 | 35 | L/M | E | 18 | 15 | 25† | 24 | 11† | 13 | 51 | 339 |
| 9 | HPTU 2020532 | 12 | ND | C | 17 | 19 | 22† | 39 | 34† | 21 | 52 | 338 |
| 10 | A28006 | 12 | L/M | F | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 11 | A28008 | 12 | L/M | F | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 12 | A28009 | 12 | L/M | F | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 13 | A28011 | 12 | L/M | F | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 14 | A33504 | 50 | ND | G | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 15 | 475 | 80 | N | H | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 43 | 277 |
| 16 | 588 | 70 | N | I | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 340 |
1This study was presented in part at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy; 2009 Sep 12–15; San Francisco, CA, USA.
