Genomic analysis of the emergence and rapid global dissemination of the clonal group 258 Klebsiella pneumoniae pandemic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Bowers, Jolene R ^a   Kitchel, Brandon ^b   Driebe, Elizabeth M ^a   MacCannell, Duncan R ^b   Roe, Chandler ^a   Lemmer, Darrin ^a   De Man, Tom ^b   Rasheed, J Kamile ^b   Engelthaler, David M ^a   Keim, Paul ^a   Limbago, Brandi M ^b  

^a TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OMPK37 PROTEIN, KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PORIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOBILE TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANDEMIC; PATHOGENICITY; PNEUMONIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PANDEMICS; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA; PORINS;

EID: 84941243520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133727     Document Type: Article

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