Evolution and dissemination of the Klebsiella pneumoniae clonal group 258 throughout Israeli post-acute care hospitals, 2008–13 | Zendy

Amos Adler | Zendy; Ziv Lifshitz | Zendy; Michal Gordon | Zendy; Debbie Ben-David | Zendy; Efrat Khabra | Zendy; Samira Masarwa | Zendy; Orit Zion | Zendy; Mitchell J. Schwaber | Zendy; Yehuda Carmeli | Zendy

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Evolution and dissemination of the Klebsiella pneumoniae clonal group 258 throughout Israeli post-acute care hospitals, 2008–13

Author(s) -

Amos Adler,

Ziv Lifshitz,

Michal Gordon,

Debbie Ben-David,

Efrat Khabra,

Samira Masarwa,

Orit Zion,

Mitchell J. Schwaber,

Yehuda Carmeli

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkx135

Subject(s) - multilocus sequence typing , phylogenetic tree , klebsiella pneumoniae , clade , biology , phylogenetics , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , escherichia coli , genotype , genetics

The KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC-KP) clonal group (CG) 258 has disseminated throughout Israeli post-acute care hospitals (PACHs). The objectives of the study were (i) to describe the evolution and (ii) to understand the dissemination modes of CG 258 in the PACH system in Israel.

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