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Community-acquired infection caused by the uncommon hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ST66-K2 lineage
1 Aug 2020
Abstract excerpt
Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp) reference strain Kp52.145 is widely used in experimental Klebsiella pathophysiology. Since 1935, only one other strain of the same sublineage (sequence type ST66, capsular serotype K2) was isolated (AJ210, Australia). Here, we describe a community-acquired invasive infection caused by a ST66-K2 Kp strain in France. Four hypermucoviscous Kp isolates responsible for acute otitis media,...
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