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Outbreak of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST15 strains in a Chinese tertiary hospital: resistance and virulence analyses
2020-08-25
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Carbapenem-resistant <italic>Klebsiella pneumoniae</italic> (CRKP) is a major cause of clinical infection. However, KPC-producing <italic>K. pneumoniae</italic> ST15 strains are occasionally identified and have never been reported to cause hospital outbreaks in China. Methods In this study, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) were used...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 78010a54-9520-55a0-8b78-9d1161f2a700
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-59410/v1
