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Tracking a hospital outbreak of KPC-producing ST11 Klebsiella pneumoniae with whole genome sequencing.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Nov 2015
Jiang Y, Wei Z, Wang Y, Hua X, Feng Y, Yu Y
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An outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains emerged at a hospital, and was tracked in order to understand the spread of these infectious pathogens. A total of 66 K. pneumoniae strains were collected from sterile samples in 2012. The MICs of 20 antimicrobial agents were determined for all strains. Molecular typing was performed with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Twelve...
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