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Genomic insights into an outbreak of SHV-98, TEM-1 and DHA-1 producing<i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>in a paediatric cardiac unit
2025-02-20
Abstract excerpt
This study reports the outbreak of a carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae clonal lineage in a specialist children’s hospital in Liverpool, UK. Carbapenem resistant K. pneumoniae is unusual in the UK, and the identification of two cases in the same ward in December 2022 raised concerns and triggered an outbreak investigation. This led to the identification of a potential transmission hotspot in the form of sh...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e88ac241-61be-58bd-9d0b-37ac8ae3846f
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.02.14.25322074
