Update: detection of a verona integron-encoded metallo-beta-lactamase in Klebsiella pneumoniae -- United States, 2010.
In July 2010, CDC was notified of a patient with a carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strain that produced a Verona integron-encoded metallo-beta-lactamase (VIM) carbapenemase not reported previously among Enterobacteriaceae in the United States. The patient was a woman from the United State...
| Published in: | MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Vol. 59; no. 37; pp. 1212 - 1213 |
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| Format: | case study Journal Article |
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Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
9/24/2010
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |