Species Transferability of Carbapenemase-2 Isolated from a High-Risk Clone of ST410.

Sequence type 410 (ST410) of is an extraintestinal pathogen associated with multi drug resistance. In this study, we aimed to investigate the horizontal propagation pathway of a highrisk clone of ST410 that produces carbapenemase (KPC). blaKPCencoding and isolates were evaluated, and complete sequencing and comparative analysis of blaKPC-encoding plasmids from and , antimicrobial susceptibility tests, polymerase chain reaction, multilocus sequence typing, and conjugal transfer of plasmids were performed.