Country-wide expansion of a VIM-1 carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella oxytoca ST145 lineage in Poland, 2009-2019.

M Biedrzycka Paweł Urbanowicz Dorota Żabicka Waleria Hryniewicz M Gniadkowski Radosław Izdebski

Published in: European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology (2023)

KoSC has been one of the major VIM producers in Poland, owing largely to clonal expansion of the specific K. oxytoca-In237-like lineage. Its apparently enhanced epidemic potential may create a danger on international scale.

Keyphrases

single cell
klebsiella pneumoniae
cell fate
gram negative
human health
pseudomonas aeruginosa
risk assessment
climate change