Clinical and genomic characterization of a cohort of patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infection.

David J RoachSusmita SridharElizabeth OliverSowmya R RaoDamien M SlaterWontae HwangKian Hutt VaterAnupama DineshFirdausi QadriJobayer ChistiVirginia M PierceSarah E TurbettRoby P BhattacharyyaColin J WorbyAshlee M EarlRegina C LaRocqueJason B Harris

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2023)

These observations demonstrate the versatility of K. pneumoniae as an opportunistic pathogen and highlight the need for new approaches for surveillance and the rapid identification of patients with invasive AMR K. pneumoniae infection.

Keyphrases

klebsiella pneumoniae
multidrug resistant
escherichia coli
public health
respiratory tract
gram negative
copy number
antimicrobial resistance
genome wide