First description of antimicrobial resistance in carbapenem-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae after imipenem treatment, driven by outer membrane remodeling.
Xuebin TianQiongdan WangLaura Perlaza-JiménezXiangkuo ZhengYajie ZhaoVijay DhanasekaranRenchi FangJiahui LiChong WangHaiyang LiuTrevor LithgowJianming CaoZhexiao MaPublished in: BMC microbiology (2020)
This study in China highlight that the alteration of outer membrane porins due to the 14-day use of imipenem play a potential role in leading to clinical presentation of carbapenem-resistance. This is the first description of increased resistance developing from a carbapenem-susceptible K. pneumoniae with imipenem treatment driven by outer membrane remodeling.