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Stepwise evolution of pandrug-resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Scientific reports - 19 Oct 2015
Zowawi Hosam M, Forde Brian M, Alfaresi Mubarak, Alzarouni Abdulqadir, Farahat Yasser, Chong Teik-Min, Yin Wai-Fong, Chan Kok-Gan, Li Jian, Schembri Mark A, Beatson Scott A, Paterson David L
Abstract excerpt
Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) pose an urgent risk to global human health. CRE that are non-susceptible to all commercially available antibiotics threaten to return us to the pre-antibiotic era. Using Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT) sequencing we determined the complete genome of a pandrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate, representing the first complete genome sequence of CRE resistant to...
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