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- initialism medicine
Carbapenem -resistant Klebsiellapneumonia .
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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
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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
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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
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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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