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Clinical and molecular characteristics of emerging hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections in mainland China.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Sept 2014
Liu Ying Mei, Li Bin Bin, Zhang Yu Yu, Zhang Wu, Shen Hong, Li Hui, Cao Bin
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Recently, the newly emerged hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae strain (hvKP) has caused great concern globally, but the clinical features and molecular characteristics of bacteremia caused by hvKP are rarely reported in mainland China. Seventy patients with K. pneumoniae bacteremia were investigated to study the clinical features of hvKP infection from 2008 till 2012 in Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital. The molecular...
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