| Literature DB >> 26574010 |
Rong Zhang1, Dachuan Lin2, Edward Wai-Chi Chan2, Danxia Gu1, Gong-Xiang Chen3, Sheng Chen4.
Abstract
We report the emergence of five carbapenem-resistant K1 hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) strains which caused fatal infections in hospital patients in Zhejiang Province, China, upon entry through surgical wounds. Genotyping results revealed the existence of three genetically related strains which exhibited a new sequence type, ST1797, and revealed that all strains harbored the magA and wcaG virulence genes and a plasmid-borne bla(KPC-2) gene. These findings indicate that K1 hvKP is simultaneously hypervirulent, multidrug resistant, and transmissible.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26574010 PMCID: PMC4704206 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.02173-15
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191