Skip to main content
. 2017 May 23;55(6):1638–1649. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02316-16

TABLE 2.

Imipenem MIC frequency distributions against carbapenemase-positive isolates of K. pneumoniae, E. coli, and E. cloacae stratified by carbapenemase type

Organism or genotypea (no. of isolates) No. (%) of isolates with indicated imipenem MIC (μg/ml)b
0.12 0.25 0.5 1 2 4 8 >8
K. pneumoniae (1,127) 1 (0.1) 5 (0.4) 16 (1.4) 59 (5.2) 138 (12.2) 146 (13.0) 170 (15.1) 592 (52.5)
    KPC (682) 1 (0.1) 7 (1.0) 39 (5.7) 83 (12.2) 117 (17.2) 435 (63.8)
    OXA-48-like (217) 1 (0.5) 4 (1.8) 14 (6.5) 49 (22.6) 82 (37.8) 36 (16.6) 12 (5.5) 19 (8.8)
    NDM (169) 13 (7.7) 29 (17.2) 127 (75.1)
    VIM (52) 4 (7.7) 11 (21.2) 11 (21.2) 26 (50.0)
    IMP (24) 1 (4.2) 1 (4.2) 2 (8.3) 13 (54.2) 3 (12.5) 2 (8.3) 2 (8.3)
    GES (2) 2 (100)
E. coli (149) 1 (0.7) 5 (3.4) 6 (4.0) 20 (13.4) 31 (20.8) 21 (14.1) 29 (19.5) 36 (24.2)
    KPC (42) 1 (2.4) 3 (7.1) 16 (38.1) 7 (16.7) 5 (11.9) 10 (23.8)
    OXA-48-like (46) 5 (10.9) 5 (10.9) 17 (37.0) 13 (28.3) 4 (8.7) 2 (4.3)
    NDM (57) 1 (1.8) 7 (12.3) 24 (42.1) 25 (43.9)
    VIM (2) 1 (50.0) 1 (50.0)
    IMP (3) 1 (33.3) 2 (66.7)
    GES (0)
E. cloacae (110) 1 (0.9) 4 (3.6) 9 (8.2) 17 (15.5) 22 (20.0) 29 (26.4) 28 (25.5)
    KPC (22) 2 (9.1) 2 (9.1) 3 (13.6) 9 (40.9) 6 (27.3)
    OXA-48-like (16) 1 (6.3) 2 (12.5) 3 (18.8) 5 (31.3) 2 (12.5) 3 (18.8)
    NDM (40) 1 (2.5) 7 (17.5) 10 (25.0) 22 (55.0)
    VIM (28) 3 (10.7) 5 (17.9) 10 (35.7) 10 (35.7)
    IMP (9) 2 (22.2) 1 (11.1) 4 (44.4) 1 (11.1) 1 (11.1)
    GES (0)
a

Data include 7 ertapenem-susceptible isolates (K. pneumoniae, 4 isolates; E. coli, 3 isolates).

b

Imipenem MIC breakpoints: susceptible, ≤1μg/ml (gray shading); intermediate, 2 μg/ml; resistant, ≥4 μg/ml (11).