Emergence of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae hypervirulent clone of capsular serotype K1 that belongs to sequence type 11 in Mainland China

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 192-194

  Wei, Dan dan ^a   Wan, La Gen ^a   Deng, Qiong ^a   Liu, Yang ^a  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hypervirulent serotype; Klebsiella; KPC; MLST; Plasmid

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPICILLIN; BENZENEBORONIC ACID; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TIGECYCLINE; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE KPC-2, KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE K1;

ADULT; AEROBACTIN GENE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLAKPC2 GENE; BLATEM GENE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ASSOCIATED BACTEREMIA; CATHETER INFECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; CRANIOTOMY; DURA MATER; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FIMH GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; IRON GENE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE SEQUENCE TYPE 11; LD50; LIVER ABSCESS; MAGA GENE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR CLONING; MRKD GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RMPA GENE; RMPA2 GENE; SUPPURATIVE MENINGITIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SEROTYPE; VIRULENCE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BETA-LACTAMASES; CHINA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEROGROUP; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84961907159     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.03.012     Document Type: Article

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