Polyclonal Endemicity of Carbapenemase-Producing <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> in ICUs of a Greek Tertiary Care Hospital

• Main Authors: Efthymia Protonotariou (Author), Georgios Meletis (Author), Dimitrios Pilalas (Author), Paraskevi Mantzana (Author), Areti Tychala (Author), Charalampos Kotzamanidis (Author), Dimitra Papadopoulou (Author), Theofilos Papadopoulos (Author), Michalis Polemis (Author), Simeon Metallidis (Author), Lemonia Skoura (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Carbapenemase-producing <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> (CPKP) emerged in Greece in 2002 and became endemic thereafter. Driven by a notable variability in the phenotypic testing results for carbapenemase production in <i>K. pneumoniae</i> isolates from the intensive care units (...