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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 7, Pages 2601-2604Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02134-09
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Meropenem heteroresistance was investigated in six apparently meropenem-susceptible, Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing K. pneumoniae (KPC-KP) clinical isolates, compared with that in carbapenemase-negative, meropenem-susceptible controls. In population analyses, the KPC-KP isolates grew at meropenem concentrations of 64 to 256 mu g/ml. Heteroresistant colonies had significantly elevated expression of the bla(KPC) gene compared with the native populations but did not retain heteroresistance when subcultured in drug-free media. Time-kill assays indicated that meropenem alone was not bactericidal against KPC-KP but efficiently killed the control strains.
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