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Emergence of a novel hypervirulent extensively drug-resistant ST383 <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> lineage carrying ICEKp5 in Lebanon
2026-03-18
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Klebsiella pneumoniae ST383 has emerged as a high-risk clone, characterized by carbapenem resistance and increasing detection of hypervirulence determinants. We describe a novel ST383 lineage in Lebanon, defined by the acquisition of ICEKp5, which carries the yersiniabactin locus. Three ST383 K. pneumoniae clinical isolates (LBN_CAKp91, LBN_CTKp3, LBN_CTKp11) recovered from a Lebanese medical center were subjecte...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c7db8eba-c7f2-58a8-8bcf-abc4d1da5eee
- DOI
- 10.64898/2026.03.17.712279
