Identification of a Carbapenemase-Producing Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolate in the United States

We report on a carbapenemase-producing hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (CP-hvKP) isolate collected from a U.S. patient at an outpatient clinic. The isolate was identified as K. pneumoniae serotype K1 sequence type 23 and included both a hypervirulence (with rmpA, rmpA2 iroBCDN, peg-344, and iucA...

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Published in:Antimicrob Agents Chemother
Main Authors: Karlsson, Maria, Stanton, Richard A., Ansari, Uzma, McAllister, Gillian, Chan, Monica Y., Sula, Erisa, Grass, Julian E., Duffy, Nadezhda, Anacker, Melissa L., Witwer, Medora L., Rasheed, J. Kamile, Elkins, Christopher A., Halpin, Alison Laufer
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Mechanisms of Resistance
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6591612/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31061159
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00519-19
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