Research Article

Molecular Epidemiology of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Tertiary Hospital in Northern China

Table 3

Imipenem MICs of different STs of 45 CRKP isolates.

Resistance profileN (%)No. of isolates by MIC (μg/mL)MIC50 (μg/mL)MIC90 (μg/mL)
48163264128256

ST1122 (48.9)8335201864
ST3074 (8.9)3000100464
ST3234 (8.9)130000088
ST763 (6.7)0210000816
ST152 (4.4)110000048
ST6252 (4.4)00020003232
Others-ST8 (17.8)42010014256

ST, sequence type; MIC, the minimal inhibitory concentration; μg/ml, micrograms per milliliter; MIC50, minimum inhibitory concentration for 50% of the isolates; MIC90, minimum inhibitory concentration for 90% of the isolates.