Draft genome sequences of three hypervirulent carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from bacteremia

Genome Announcements

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Shankar, Chaitra ^a   Nabarro, Laura E B ^a   Ragupathi, Naveen Kumar Devanga ^a   Sethuvel, Dhiviya Prabaa Muthuirulandi ^a   Daniel, Jones Lionel Kumar ^a   Doss, C George Priya ^b   Veeraraghavan, Balaji ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 85010375459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.01081-16     Document Type: Article

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