Clinical and molecular characteristics of multi-clone carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent (hypermucoviscous) Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in a tertiary hospital in Beijing, China

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OBJECTIVES: To provide the clinical and molecular characteristics of carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent (hypermucoviscous) Klebsiella pneumoniae (cr-hvKP) in a tertiary hospital in Beijing, China. METHODS: The clinical characteristics of four patients with cr-hvKP isolates and 29 patients with carbapenem-resistant classic K. pneumoniae (cr-cKP) infections were analyzed retrospectively. The molecular...

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