Clinical evolution of ST11 carbapenem resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae

Clinical evolution of ST11 carbapenem resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae

Carbapenem-resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae strains are emerging. Here Xie et al. show that these phenotypes are carried on a plasmid formed from the fusion of a virulence plasmid with a conjugative plasmid.

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Main Authors: Miaomiao Xie, Xuemei Yang, Qi Xu, Lianwei Ye, Kaichao Chen, Zhiwei Zheng, Ning Dong, Qiaoling Sun, Lingbin Shu, Danxia Gu, Edward Wai-Chi Chan, Rong Zhang, Sheng Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-06-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02148-4

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02148-4

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