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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2003) 51, 711-714
© 2003 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Plasmid-mediated, carbapenem-hydrolysing ß-lactamase, KPC-2, in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates
1 Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University School of Medicine, 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178; 2 Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Received 28 June 2002; returned 23 October 2002; revised 13 December 2002; accepted 14 December 2002
Four isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae obtained from patients at a Maryland medical centre exhibited reduced susceptibility to carbapenems and were found to produce the novel, class A, plasmid-mediated, carbapenem-hydrolysing enzyme, KPC-2. This enzyme has 99% identity with the plasmid-mediated, carbapenem-hydrolysing enzyme KPC-1, reported previously in a North Carolina K. pneumoniae isolate. The KPC-2-producing isolates were either susceptible or intermediate to imipenem and meropenem, unlike the KPC-1-producing isolate, which was resistant to these agents. Detection of KPC-2 may be a problem for clinical laboratories because in this study it was associated with positive extended-spectrum ß-lactamase (ESBL) confirmation tests (clavulanate-potentiated activities of ceftriaxone, ceftazidime, cefepime and aztreonam). Therefore, a failure to recognize the significance of reduced carbapenem susceptibility in the isolates that remained susceptible to imipenem or meropenem could have resulted in the isolates being incorrectly identified as ESBL producers.
Keywords: imipenem, meropenem, ertapenem, ß-lactamase, carbapenemase
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