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Evidence for clonal dissemination of the serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae strain causing invasive liver abscesses in Korea.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 2008
Chung Doo Ryeon, Lee Ha Rim, Lee Seung Soon, Kim Shin Woo, Chang Hyun-Ha, Jung Sook-In, Oh Myoung-don, Ko Kwan Soo, Kang Cheol-In, Peck Kyong Ran, Song Jae-Hoon
Abstract excerpt
Seventy-three liver abscess isolates of serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae from a nationwide collection in Korea were genotypically characterized using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing. We found that serotype K1 K. pneumoniae strains that caused liver abscesses in Korea were genotypically related and that most were sequence type 23.
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