Nosocomial Clustering of NDM-1-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 340 Strains in Four Patients at a South Korean Tertiary Care Hospital

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In November 2010, NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (NDMKP) was identified for the first time in South Korea from four patients with no history of traveling abroad who stayed for 21 to 205 days in a tertiary care hospital. All were sequence type (ST) 340 and had nearly identical XbaI pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns. The bla(NDM-1)-carrying plasmids were in the IncN group, with sizes ranging...

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