Abstract:Antimicrobial resistance and gene typing of extendedspectrum βlactamasesproducing Klebsiella pneumoniaeLIU Xiaochun,WANG Guoqing,WANG Rong, LIU Yunde (Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300203, China)[Abstract]ObjectiveTo investigate antimicrobial resistance and genotypes of extendedspectrum βlactamases(ESBLs)producing Klebsiella pneumoniae(K. pneumoniae) isolated from clinic in a hospital . MethodsK. pneumoniae were collected, ESBLs preliminary screen and phenotype confirmatory tests were carried out according to the NCCLS guidelines; antimicrobial susceptibility tests were determined by KirbyBauer test; gene types of βlactamases were performed with PCR . ResultsThe detection rate of ESBLsproducing K. pneumoniae was 62.22%(56/90). ESBLsproducing strains were only sensitive to the combination of the third generation cephalosporins with βlactamases inhibitor and carbapenems. The detection rate of genes of SHV, CTXM1, TEM and CTXM9 was 69.64%, 51.79%, 37.50% and 0.00% respectively. 35.71% and 14.28% of ESBLproducing K. pneumoniae carried two or three genes respectively. ConclusionAntimicrobial resistance of K. pneumoniae is serious, the main gene types are SHV and CTXM1