title: Emergence of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST512 isolated from cerebrospinal fluid of a child in Algeria.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne, Université de Bejaia, Bejaia, Algeria ; Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), IHU Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Aix-Marseille-Université, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bakour
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Microbiologie, CHU de Sétif, Algeria.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sahli
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne, Université de Bejaia, Bejaia, Algeria.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Touati
authors.affiliation: Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), IHU Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Aix-Marseille-Université, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: J-M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Rolain
keywords: Algeria; Carbapenem resistance; KPC; Klebsiella pneumoniae; ST512