The emergence of the hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) strains among circulating clonal complex 147 (CC147) harbouring bla NDM/OXA-48 carbapenemases in a tertiary care center of Iran

Abstract Background Klebsiella pneumoniae is a public health concern because of its ability to develop multidrug resistance and hypervirulent genotypes, of those capsular types K1 and K2 cause community and nosocomial life-threatening infections. This study aimed to determine the antibiotic suscepti...

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Main Authors: Omid Pajand, Narges Darabi, Maedeh Arab, Raheb Ghorbani, Zakaria Bameri, Ali Ebrahimi, Zoya Hojabri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-03-01
Series:Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
Subjects:
NDM
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12941-020-00349-z