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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, February 2007, p. 763-765, Vol. 51, No. 2
0066-4804/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.01053-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Plasmid-Mediated KPC-2 in a Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolate from China{triangledown}

Ze-Qing Wei, Xiao-Xing Du, Yun-Song Yu,* Ping Shen, Ya-Gang Chen, and Lan-Juan Li

Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases of the Public Health Ministry, First Affiliated Hospital, Medical School, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Received 22 August 2006/ Returned for modification 16 September 2006/ Accepted 21 November 2006

A carbapenem-resistant isolate of Klebsiella pneumoniae producing class A carbapenemase KPC-2 was identified in Zhejiang, China. The KPC-2 gene was located on an approximately 60-kb plasmid in a genetic environment partially different from that of blaKPC-2 in the isolates from the United States and Colombia.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Infectious Disease Department, The 1st Affiliated Hospital, Medical College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Phone: 86 571 8723 6756. Fax: 86 571 8723 6755. E-mail: yvys119{at}163.com.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 4 December 2006.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, February 2007, p. 763-765, Vol. 51, No. 2
0066-4804/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.01053-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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