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First clinical case of KPC-3-producing in Europe
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 23.02.2019
Seiffert S N, Wüthrich D, Gerth Y, Egli A, Kohler Philipp, Nolte O
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is a newly emerging human pathogen. We describe a case of bloodstream infection in an immunocompromised patient. The pathogen was repeatedly isolated from blood and one rectal swab, and was identified using routine standard procedures. Further investigations revealed that the was multidrug resistant, carrying a plasmid harbouring a carbapenemase (KPC)-3 carbapenemase gene. This plasmid has been frequently encountered in isolates in Europe but has never been described in