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  • initialism medicine Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia.

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Examples

  • Klebsiella or CRKP, an increasingly common drug-resistant organism subject of my Scientific American piece last April for which the drugs colistin and tigecycline are the only remaining treatments.

    Wired Top Stories Maryn McKenna 2011

  • He entered the transplant intensive care unit at the end of February, was diagnosed with CRKP in early April, got colistin, and was discovered to have colistin-resistant

    Wired Top Stories Maryn McKenna 2011

  • She never had CRKP, and never received colistin - but in the middle of May, she was discovered to have a urinary tract infection that was colistin-resistant.

    Wired Top Stories Maryn McKenna 2011

  • After she had been there two months, she was also diagnosed with CRKP, and also began receiving colistin.

    Wired Top Stories Maryn McKenna 2011

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