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.

CONCLUSION: Our results highlight a combination of virulence and resistance genes, which could lead to untreatable invasive infections. PMID: 29205138 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29205138?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - December 5, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Turton JF, Payne Z, Coward A, Hopkins KL, Turton JA, Doumith M, Woodford N Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research

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