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Escherichia coli ST502 and Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 sharing an IncW plasmid harbouring the blaKPC-2 gene in an Intensive Care Unit patient

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the platform Genotyping of Pathogens and Public Health (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) for MLST analyses.

Funding: This work was supported by the Brazilian funding agencies CNPq, CAPES, FACEPE and PFA/UPE.

Competing interests: None declared.

Ethical approval: This work was approved by the Ethics Committee of the State University of Pernambuco, Brazil (reference no. 190/09).

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