High prevalence of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae infection in China: Geographic distribution, clinical characteristics, and antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 6115-6120

  Zhang, Yawei ^a   Zhao, Chunjiang ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Wang, Xiaojuan ^a   Chen, Hongbin ^a   Li, Henan ^a   Zhang, Feifei ^a   Li, Shuguang ^a   Wang, Ruobing ^a   Wang, Hui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AEROBACTIN; AMIKACIN; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TIGECYCLINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; RMPA PROTEIN, KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEOPLASM; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEROTYPE; STEROID THERAPY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; AGED; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DIABETIC COMPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; INTRAABDOMINAL INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASMS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLASMID; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIRULENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CHINA; CROSS INFECTION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTRAABDOMINAL INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEOPLASMS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLASMIDS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROGROUP; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84992386911     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01127-16     Document Type: Article

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