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Volume 16, Number 9—September 2010
Research

Worldwide Diversity of Klebsiella pneumoniae That Produce β-Lactamase blaKPC-2 Gene1

Gaëlle Cuzon, Thierry NaasComments to Author , HaVy Truong, Maria-Virginia Villegas, Karin T. Wisell, Yehuda Carmeli, Ana. C. Gales, Shiri Navon-Venezia, John P. Quinn, and Patrice Nordmann
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France (G. Cuzon, T. Naas, H. Truong, P. Nordmann); International Center for Medical Research and Training, Cali, Colombia (M.V. Villegas); Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden (K.T. Wisell); Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel (Y. Carmeli, S. Navon-Venezia); Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (A.C. Gales); John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, USA (J.P. Quinn); Chicago Infectious Disease Research Institute, Chicago (J.P. Quinn)

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Table 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

*Countries shown in Table 1. PFGE, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; MLST, multilocus sequence type; ST, sequence type; ND, could not be determined with the Inc primers tested.
†Alleles are variants of previously described alleles (Figure 2).

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1This study was presented in part at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy; 2009 Sep 12–15; San Francisco, CA, USA.

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