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Emergence of ceftazidime-avibactam resistance through distinct genomic adaptations in KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae of sequence type 39 during treatment.

Irene GalaniIlias KaraiskosEvdokia AngelidisVassiliki PapoutsakiLamprini GalaniMaria SouliAnastasia AntoniadouHelen Giamarellou
Published in: European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology (2020)
Three ceftazidime-avibactam-resistant KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strains of ST39 were isolated in Greece, from rectal swabs of three patients after 10-15 days of treatment. The patients were treated with ceftazidime-avibactam as monotherapy or in combination with colistin. Two of these strains harbored a D179Y or a D179V substitution in the Ω loop of KPC-2, corresponding to KPC-33, or to the novel KPC-57, respectively. The third strain had a 15 amino acid insertion after position 259 in the KPC-2, corresponding to KPC-44.
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