Fusion plasmid enhanced the endemic extensively drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae clone ST147 harbored bla OXA-48 to acquire the hypervirulence and cause fatal infection

Abstract Background Klebsiella Pneumoniae (Kp) sequence type (ST) 147 has emerged globally and spread rapidly, particularly the extensively drug resistant (XDR) isolates. However, the infections caused by this subtype is rare reported in China for now. The clinical, microbiological and genomic chara...

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Main Authors: Chao Liu, Pengcheng Du, Ping Yang, Ming Lu, Ning Shen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-02-01
Series:Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12941-022-00551-1