Two for the price of one: emerging carbapenemases in a returning traveller to New York City

We report a case of a complex orthopaedic infection in a patient returning to New York City from Bangladesh where he was involved in a serious motor vehicle accident. He developed extensive osteomyelitis with a carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. The isolate was unique due to the coexistence...

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Published in:BMJ Case Rep
Main Authors: Mittal, Jaimie, Szymczak, Wendy A, Guo, Yi, Levi, Michael H, Chen, Liang, Kreiswirth, Barry N, Riska, Paul F, Nori, Priya
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Reminder of Important Clinical Lesson
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6058116/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30021742
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-225440
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