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Genomic surveillance for multidrug-resistant or hypervirulent <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> among bloodstream isolates at a United States academic medical center
2020-12-05
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<h4>Background</h4> Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) strains have been divided into two major categories: classical K. pneumonia , which are frequently multidrug-resistant and cause hospital-acquired infections in patients with impaired defenses, and hypervirulent K. pneumoniae , which cause severe disseminated community-acquired infections in immunologically normal hosts. Both types of infections may lead...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b9e8528a-f046-56c7-a2af-aa58dea6dc31
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.12.04.410209
