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This study produces new findings that highlight a positive correlation between antibiotic resistance profile and biofilm-forming ability in XDR K. pneumoniae strains. These new evidences might contribute to the progress in selection of therapeutic treatments of infections caused by K. pneumoniae resistant also to the 'last line of defence' antibiotics, that is, carbapenems.
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