Research Article

Dissemination and Molecular Epidemiology of KPC-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Collected in Puerto Rico Medical Center Hospitals during a 1-Year Period

Table 4

Total number and % of susceptibility to carbapenems according to KPC variant.

Type of KPC variant Number of isolates% susceptible
(no. of susceptible/no. of tested isolates)
ErtapenemImipenemMeropenem

KPC-2 80 (0/8) 0 (0/8) 0 (0/8)
KPC-314 0 (0/14) 29 (4/14) 43 (6/14)
KPC-4 40 (0/4)100 (4/4)100 (4/4)
KPC-6 10 (0/1) 0 (0/1) 0 (0/1)