Molecular epidemiology of Klebsiella pneumoniae K1 and K2 isolates in Japan

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 354-359

  Harada, Sohei ^a,b   Ishii, Yoshikazu ^a   Saga, Tomoo ^c   Aoki, Kotaro ^a   Tateda, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c AKITA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capsular genotype; Klebsiella pneumoniae; MLST; Virulence genes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL GENOME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING;

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 85045540397     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2018.03.010     Document Type: Article

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