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Rate of infection and carrying genes resistant to 3rd generation Cephalosporin and Quinolone of Klebsiella strains causing respiratory infections isolated at the National Children's Hospital, 2009 - 2010 - 16

4.4. Proportion of K. peumoniae strains carrying genes encoding quinolone resistance (qnr) Resistance to quinolone antibiotics is determined by the qnr gene located on different Integrons. This discovery is of great importance because it shows that quinolone resistance genes can spread horizontally ...

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