Emergence of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST512 isolated from cerebrospinal fluid of a child in Algeria

S. Bakour (1) , F. Sahli (2) , A. Touati (3) , Jean-Marc Rolain (1)

1 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
2 Centre Hospito-Universitaire de Sétif
3 Laboratoire d'écologie microbienne

We report class A carbapenemase (KPC)-3-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis in a 6-month-old child in Algeria. Multilocus sequence typing showed that the sequence type obtained corresponded to ST512, an allelic single-locus variant of the pandemic ST258 widely distributed in KPC producers from Europe. To our knowledge, this is the first report of KPC-3-producing K. pneumoniae ST512 in a North African country.

Mots clés: Algeria; Carbapenem resistance; Klebsiella pneumoniae; KPC; ST512

Domaines: Maladies infectieuses; Bactériologie

S. Bakour, F. Sahli, A. Touati, Jean-Marc Rolain. Emergence of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST512 isolated from cerebrospinal fluid of a child in Algeria. New Microbes and New Infections, 2015, 3, pp.34-36. ⟨10.1016/j.nmni.2014.09.001⟩. ⟨hal-01769491⟩