Microbiological and Genetic Characterization of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolated From Pediatric Patients

Jasmeen S Dara; Liang Chen; Michael H Levi; Barry N Kreiswirth; Rebecca Pellett Madan

doi:10.1093/jpids/pit049

Microbiological and Genetic Characterization of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolated From Pediatric Patients

J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2014 Mar;3(1):e10-4. doi: 10.1093/jpids/pit049. Epub 2013 Aug 20.

Authors

Jasmeen S Dara¹, Liang Chen², Michael H Levi³, Barry N Kreiswirth², Rebecca Pellett Madan⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York [email protected].
² Public Health Research Institute Center, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark.
³ Department of Pathology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.

Abstract

This manuscript reports the clinical, microbiological, and genetic characteristics of carbapenem-resistant K. pnuemoniae isolates from pediatric patients at a tertiary-care children's hospital. Although there is an extensive body of literature describing carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella infections in adults, pediatric data are comparatively limited.

Keywords: Klebsiella pneumoniae; carbapenemase; polymyxin.

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