Occurrence of high-risk clones of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11, ST340 and ST855 carrying the blaKPC-2, blaNDM-1, blaNDM-5 and blaNDM-7 genes from colonized and infected patients in Brazil.

Érica Maria de OliveiraElizabeth Maria Bispo BeltrãoMaria Izabely Silva PimentelAna Catarina de Souza Lopes

Published in: Journal of applied microbiology (2023)

These findings are worrying, as they have a negative impact on the scenario of antimicrobial resistance, and show the high genetic variability of K. pneumoniae and its ability to mutate resistance genes and risk of dissemination via different ST clones.

Keyphrases

klebsiella pneumoniae
antimicrobial resistance
multidrug resistant
escherichia coli
genome wide
risk assessment
bioinformatics analysis
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