Microbiologists are urging that Canada ramp up its surveillance of another strain of bacteria—
carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC)—by screening Canadians who've …

Carbapenems are often the last line of defense in the treatment of severe infections caused
by multi-drug resistant gram negative pathogens. 1 Misuse of antibiotics and selection …

As a rule, high-ranking public-health officials try to avoid apocalyptic descriptors. So it was
worrying to hear Thomas Frieden and Sally Davies warn of a coming health" nightmare" and …

In 2012, only a decade after the CDC first identified a case of carbapenemresistantKlebsiella
pneumoniaein a North Carolina long-term care facility, nearly 5% of acute care hospitals …

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) may be the most concerning
contemporary antibiotic resistance threat. Enterobacteriaceae comprise a large group of …

Introduction Carbapenem resistant organisms (CRO) constitute a large group of bacteria
with different mechanisms of resistance and recently increasing global incidence. This rise …

Carbapenems have long been a reliable last line of defense in the treatment of infections
caused by antimicrobial-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Unfortunately, carbapenems have …

This discrepancy could mislead a clinician into thinking that the carbapenem class of
antibiotics is useful. When the 10 isolates were subsequently tested using phenotypic and …

As hospitals across the United States and other countries are seeing dramatic increases in
the number of infections with the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as carbapenem …

Sir, 13 The emergence of carbapenemase-mediated resistance to all the β-lactam, including
14 the carbapenem is a major public health threat. In Enterobacteriaceae, one of the most …