Klebsiella variicola is a frequent cause of bloodstream infection in the Stockholm area, and associated with higher mortality compared to K. pneumoniae

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Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Maatallah, Makaoui ^a   Vading, Malin ^b,c   Kabir, Muhammad Humaun ^b   Bakhrouf, Amina ^a   Kalin, Mats ^c   Nauclér, Pontus ^c   Brisse, Sylvain ^d,e   Giske, Christian G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CARBAPENEM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA QUASIPNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA VARIICOLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORTALITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED;

KLEBSIELLA VARIICOLA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SWEDEN; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84913568907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113539     Document Type: Article

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