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. 2022 Mar 16;60(3):e02245-21. doi: 10.1128/jcm.02245-21

TABLE 2.

Patient data and carbapenem and ceftazidime-avibactam susceptibility of KPC-producing K. pneumoniae isolates and results of phenotypic methods for KPC detectiona

Sample Source Date (day/mo/yr) CAZ-AVI exposure at time of culture (days) MIC values (mg/L)
ChromID plates
Phenotypic methods
Rapid molecular methods
IMP MEM CAZ/AVI ESBL CARBA SMART IC
β-CARBA test Rosco Diagnostica
DDST-ESBL Eazyplex system Xpert Carba-R KPC variant
O.K.N.V.I. RESIST-5 NG-test CARBA 5 CP ESBL/AmpC
A-1 BAS 02/03/2020 +1 16 8 2 + + + + + + −/– + + KPC-3
A-2 Rectal 25/03/2020 +6 ≤1 ≤ 0.12 32 + + + +/– + + + KPC-46
B-1 Rectal 02/06/2020 0 16 >16 2 + + + + + + −/– + + KPC-3
B-2 Rectal 16/06/2020 +8 ≤1 ≤ 0.12 8 + + + +/– + + + KPC-66
C-1 Rectal 09/06/2020 0 16 >16 1 + + + + + + −/– + + KPC-3
C-2 Blood 13/07/2020 +24 ≤1 ≤ 0.12 8 + + + +/– + + + KPC-92
a

BAS, bronchial aspirate; IMP, imipenem; MEM, meropenem; CAZ/AVI, ceftazidime-avibactam; IC, immunochromatography test; CP, carbapenemases; DDST-ESBL, susceptibility testing by disk diffusion for ESBL detection; +, positive result for KPC carbapenemase detection, −, negative result for KPC carbapenemase detection.