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Characterization of Hypervirulent and Carbapenem-Resistant K. pneumoniae Isolated from Neurological Patients

open access: yesInfection and Drug Resistance, 2023
Qingping Zhou,1,* Chunyang Wu,2,* Peiyao Zhou,3 Ji Zhang,1 Zhanghua Xiong,4 Ying Zhou,5 Fangyou Yu5 1Department of Neurology, Jiangxi Provincial People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang Medical College, Nanchang, 330006 ...
Zhou Q   +6 more
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Hybrid Plasmids Encoding Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence Traits Among Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ST2096 in India

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022
BackgroundHypervirulent variants of Klebsiella pneumoniae (HvKp) were typically associated with a broadly antimicrobial susceptible clone of sequence type (ST) 23 at the time of its emergence.
Chaitra Shankar   +8 more
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Epidemiological Characteristics and Formation Mechanisms of Multidrug-Resistant Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Multi-drug resistance (MDR) and hypervirulence (hv) were exhibited by different well-separated Klebsiella pneumoniae lineages in the past, but their convergence clones—MDR-hypervirulent K.
Miran Tang   +3 more
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Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae: An update on epidemiology, detection and antibiotic resistance

open access: yes, 2023
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major human pathogen as it is responsible for various infections. In the past years hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (hvKP) emerged and disseminated worldwide. In this review a summary will be given about epidemiology, detection and
Kocsis, Béla, Béla Kocsis
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility, Virulence, and Genomic Features of a Hypervirulent Serotype K2, ST65 Klebsiella pneumoniae Causing Meningitis in Italy

open access: yesAntibiotics, 2022
The rise of a new hypervirulent variant of Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) was recently reported, mainly linked to the ST23 lineage. The hvKp variants can cause severe infections, including hepatic abscesses, bacteremia, and meningitis, with a particularly ...
Aurora Piazza   +6 more
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A case of neck abscess caused by rare hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, capsular type K20 and sequence type 420 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Background: This case report describes a neck abscess caused by a strain of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in a middle aged man with diabetes without a history of travel to East and South East Asia.
Turton, Jane   +5 more
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Hypervirulent strains of Clostridium difficile [PDF]

open access: yesPostgraduate Medical Journal, 2007
Abstract North America has seen increasing numbers of hospitalised patients and others in nursing homes and the community, with more severe Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea. This is also described in Northern Europe and surveillance systems are being developed or improved to monitor the situation.
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Emergence of colistin-heteroresistant and carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae

open access: yes, 2023
: Objectives: To investigate the clinical emergence of colistin-heteroresistant, hypervirulent, and multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, and characterize the underlying molecular mechanisms.
Fen Qu   +7 more
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Dissemination of blaNDM-harboring plasmids in carbapenem-resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae

open access: yesMicrobiology Spectrum
Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) is a global public health threat, and CRKP strains carrying blaNDM plasmids are of particular concern.
Yihai Gu   +9 more
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An Outbreak of ST859-K19 Carbapenem-Resistant Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Chinese Teaching Hospital

open access: yesmSystems, 2022
Carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-hvKP) has been increasingly reported worldwide. Here, we report an outbreak caused by sequence type 859-K19 (ST859-K19) CR-hvKP isolates in a teaching hospital in China.
Junying Zhu   +3 more
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