An Outbreak of a Nosocomial NDM-1-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST147 at a Teaching Hospital in Mainland China

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A total of 1,870 nonduplicate clinical Enterobacteriaceae from 13 teaching hospitals located in 11 provinces of mainland China from 2011 to 2012 were screened for the presence of the blaNDM gene. The high-throughput MiSeq sequencing method and comparative genomics were used to analyze the genetic environment of blaNDM among these isolates. Three blaNDM-1-carrying Klebsiella pneumoniae (0.16%, 3/1,870), isolated...

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