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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Klebsiella pneumoniae is an opportunistic pathogen that mainly causes nosocomial infections and hospital-associated pneumonia in elderly and immunocompromised people. However, multidrug-resistant hypervirulent K.
Md Roushan Ali, Zhien He
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Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, 2021 Hypervirulence and carbapenem resistance have emerged as two distinct evolutionary directions for Klebsiella pneumoniae, which pose a great threat in clinical settings.
Yan Jiang, Yunsong Yu
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Identification, Molecular Characterization, and Biology of a Novel Quadrivirus Infecting the Phytopathogenic Fungus Leptosphaeria biglobosa [PDF]
Viruses, 2018 Here we report the molecular characterisation of a novel dsRNA virus isolated from the filamentous, plant pathogenic fungus Leptosphaeria biglobosa and known to cause significant alterations to fungal pigmentation and growth and to result in ...
Unnati A. Shah +3 more
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The case for hypervirulence through gene deletion in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Trends in Microbiology, 2008 Deletion of genes in a pathogen is commonly associated with a reduction in its ability to cause disease. However, some rare cases have been described in the literature whereby deletion of a gene results in an increase in virulence.
Farahnaz Movahedzadeh +2 more
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Susceptibility of hamsters to clostridium difficile isolates of differing toxinotype [PDF]
, 2013 Clostridium difficile is the most commonly associated cause of antibiotic associated disease (AAD), which caused ~21,000 cases of AAD in 2011 in the U.K. alone.
A Buckley +53 more
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Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2022 The combination of carbapenem resistance and hypervirulence in Klebsiella pneumoniae is an emerging and urgent threat due to its potential to resist common antibiotics and cause life-threatening infections in healthy hosts.
Zackery P. Bulman +9 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-hvKP), a type of Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) that exhibits hypervirulence and carbapenem resistance phenotypes, can cause severe infections, both hospital- and community-acquired infections.
Yu-Ling Han +10 more
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Convergence of multiple resistance and hypervirulence in Klebsiella pneumoniae
Инфекция и иммунитет, 2022 Since 2018, Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates have been described in Russia, demonstrating the convergence of hypervirulent properties and multiple antibiotic resistance.
Vladimir A. Ageevets +2 more
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Hypercapsule is the cornerstone of Klebsiella pneumoniae in inducing pyogenic liver abscess
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023 PurposeTo investigate the mechanisms of Klebsiella pneumoniae-induced pyogenic liver abscess (PLA).MethodsForty-three K. pneumoniae strains from PLAs and 436 from non-PLAs were collected.
Dakang Hu +9 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 The emergence of hypervirulent carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (hv-CRKP) was regarded as an emerging threat in clinical settings. Here, we investigated the prevalence of CRKP strains among inpatients in a new hospital over 1 year since its ...
Ruifei Chen +8 more
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