Identification of plasmid IncQ1 and NTEKPC-IId harboring bla KPC-2 in isolates from Klebsiella pneumoniae infections in patients from Recife-PE, Brazil.
Giselle Jucá de LimaAlexsandra Maria Lima ScavuzziElizabeth Maria Bispo BeltrãoElza Ferreira FirmoÉrica Maria de OliveiraSibele Ribeiro de OliveiraAntônio Mauro RezendeAna Catarina de Souza LopesPublished in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2020)
To our knowledge, this is the first report of the presence of the bla KPC-2 gene in the NTEKPC-IId element carried by plasmid IncQ1 from infections in Brazil.