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Stool metagenome analysis of patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess and their domestic partners.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Jun 2021
Molton James S, Lee I Russel, Bertrand Denis, Ding Ying, Kalimuddin Shirin, Lye David C, Nagarajan Niranjan, Gan Yunn-Hwen, Archuleta Sophia
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OBJECTIVES: Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae is an emerging cause of community-acquired liver abscess. The aim of this study was to investigate whether hypermucoviscous strains could be shared among households. METHODS: The clinical K. pneumoniae isolates from a cohort of 24 patients with Klebsiella liver abscess were genotyped, and the stool metagenomes of the index patients and their cohabiting domestic...
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