Virulence genes in isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae from the UK during 2016, including among carbapenemase gene-positive hypervirulent K1-st23 and ‘non-hypervirulent’ types ST147, ST15 and ST383

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 118-128

  Turton, Jane F ^a   Payne, Zoë ^a   Coward, Amy ^a   Hopkins, Katie L ^a   Turton, Jack A ^b   Doumith, Michel ^a   Woodford, Neil ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b Supporting Informatician   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerobactin; Carbapenemase; Hypervirulence; Klebsiella pneumoniae; RmpA; Virulence plasmid; Yersiniabactin

Indexed keywords

AEROBACTIN; CARBAPENEMASE; HEAVY METAL; SIDEROPHORE; YERSINIABACTIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; UNITED KINGDOM; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PROCEDURES; SEROTYPING; UPREGULATION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; SEROTYPING; UP-REGULATION; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 85039551940     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.000653     Document Type: Article

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