Relationship between virulence and carbapenem resistance phenotype of Klebsiella pneumoniae from blood infection: identification of a carbapenem-resistant and hypervirulent strain.

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OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relationship between the virulence and the carbapenem resistance phenotype of Klebsiella pneumoniae from blood infection, and to identify carbapenem-resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-HVKP)strains. METHODS: A total of 192 Klebsiella pneumoniae strains were isolated from blood culture of patients with bloodstream infections from 2016 to 2019, of which 96 isolates...

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