%0 Journal Article
%T The Resistance Mechanism and Clonal Distribution of Tigecycline-Nonsusceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates in Korea
%A Chulsoo Ahn
%A Kyungwon Lee
%A Sang Sun Yoon
%A Seok Hoon Jeong
%A Tae Soon Yong
%J Archive of "Yonsei Medical Journal".
%D 2016
%R 10.3349/ymj.2016.57.3.641
%X Tigecycline is one of the drugs used to treat multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) infections, including complicated skin and soft tissue infections, complicated intra-abdominal infection, and community-acquired pneumonia in the Republic of Korea. However, since its commercial release, K. pneumoniae resistance against tigecycline has been reported, and there is a serious concern about the spread of tigecycline resistant bacteria
%K Tigecycline
%K Klebsiella pneumoniae
%K ramR
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800353/