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Clonal and horizontal spread of the blaOXA-232 gene among Enterobacteriaceae in a Korean hospital.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 May 2015
Jeong Seok Hoon, Lee Kyu Man, Lee Jacob, Bae Il Kwon, Kim Jae-Seok, Kim Han-Sung, Song Wonkeun
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All 16 Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates and both Escherichia coli isolates harbored the bla(OXA-232) and bla(CTX-M-15) genes. Furthermore, all 16 K. pneumoniae isolates belonged to a unique pulsed-field gel electrophoresis clone and were assigned to an identical sequence type (ST14). The 2 E. coli isolates were identified as ST131 and ST457. The bla(OXA-232) gene underwent horizontal transfer to E. coli isolates...
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