A Comprehensive Genomic Analysis of the Emergent Klebsiella pneumoniae ST16 Lineage: Virulence, Antimicrobial Resistance and a Comparison with the Clinically Relevant ST11 Strain

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Klebsiella pneumoniae is considered an opportunistic pathogen frequently involved with healthcare-associated infections. The genome of K. pneumoniae is versatile, harbors diverse virulence factors and easily acquires and exchanges resistance plasmids, facilitating the emergence of new threatening clones. In the last years, ST16 has been described as an emergent, clinically relevant strain, increasingly associated...

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