First Outbreak of KPC-2-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 258 in a Hospital in South Korea | Zendy

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First Outbreak of KPC-2-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 258 in a Hospital in South Korea

Author(s) -

Sung Kwan Hong,

Dongeun Yong,

Kyeongmi Kim,

Sang Sook Hong,

Yunsop Chong,

Khosbayar Tulgaa,

Wonkeun Song,

Kyoung Ho Roh,

Seok Hoon Jeong,

Kyungwon Lee

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of clinical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349

H-Index - 255

eISSN - 1070-633X

pISSN - 0095-1137

DOI - 10.1128/jcm.01730-13

Subject(s) - klebsiella pneumoniae , outbreak , multilocus sequence typing , typing , biology , virology , sequence (biology) , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , genotype , genetics , escherichia coli , gene

In this study, we report the first outbreak of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from three patients admitted to a neurosurgery department in a South Korean teaching hospital. Multilocus sequence typing showed that the isolates were identical to the previous KPC producers in South Korea and other countries, suggesting clonal spread.

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