Publications by authors named "Sophia Papagianni"
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- Kingella kingae is typically associated with bone and joint infections in young children, but it can also cause other serious infections like pneumonia, which are rarely reported.
- The text details a unique case of K. kingae causing bacteremia and a lower respiratory infection in a healthy infant, marking it as the first documented instance in Greek children.
- Both culture and molecular methods were used to identify the pathogen in this case.
Introduction: In Greece, the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in humans has led to the reintroduction of colistin as a therapeutic agent. Unfortunately, colistin resistance with different mechanisms has emerged. The present work aims to determine the prevalence of carbapenem and colistin resistance and the corresponding mechanisms in Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates from Greece.
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