Emergence of tigecycline-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 clone in patients without exposure to tigecycline

Emergence of tigecycline-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 clone in patients without exposure to tigecycline

Introduction: Tigecycline is a unique class of semi-synthetic glycylcyclines developed to treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. In the past decades, eight tigecycline-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates have been identified in Tehran and no Klebsiella pneumoni...

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Main Authors: Rezvan Goodarzi, Mohammadreza Arabestani, Mohmmad Yousef Alikhani, Fariba Keramat, Babak Asghari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 2021-11-01
Series:Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
Subjects:
Tigecycline
efflux pump genes
Klebsiella pneumoniae
MLST
RT-PCR
real-time PCR
Online Access:https://jidc.org/index.php/journal/article/view/15157
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