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Occurrence of colistin-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella variicola.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Nov 2018
Lu Yang, Feng Yu, McNally Alan, Zong Zhiyong
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Background: A colistin-resistant mucoid Klebsiella strain was recovered from the blood of a patient in China. Hypervirulence has been reported in Klebsiella pneumoniae, but not in other Klebsiella spp. The strain was suspected to be hypervirulent and was therefore characterized. Methods: The strain was subjected to genome sequencing using both the short-read Illumina HiSeq X10 Sequencer and the long-read MinION...
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