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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, January 2009, p. 292-294, Vol. 53, No. 1
0066-4804/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00931-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

KPC-2-Producing Enterobacter cloacae and Pseudomonas putida Coinfection in a Liver Transplant Recipient{triangledown}

Jason W. Bennett,1 Monica L. Herrera,2 James S. Lewis II,3,5 Brian W. Wickes,3 and James H. Jorgensen2,3,4*

San Antonio Military Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234,1 Departments of Microbiology,2 Medicine,3 Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229,4 Pharmacy Department, University Health System, San Antonio, Texas 782295

Received 14 July 2008/ Returned for modification 10 September 2008/ Accepted 1 October 2008

Carbapenemases are among the newest resistance mechanisms to emerge in some gram-negative bacteria. We describe bacteremia in a critically ill liver transplant recipient infected with KPC-2-producing Enterobacter cloacae and Pseudomonas putida. Although this enzyme has been previously described in Enterobacter spp., this is the first report of KPC carbapenemase in P. putida.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900. Phone: (210) 567-4088. Fax: (210) 567-2367. E-mail: jorgensen{at}uthscsa.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 13 October 2008.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, January 2009, p. 292-294, Vol. 53, No. 1
0066-4804/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.00931-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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