Genomic Analysis of a Pan-Resistant Isolate of Klebsiella pneumoniae , United States 2016
Author(s) -
Tom J. B. de Man,
Joseph D. Lutgring,
David Lonsway,
Karen Anderson,
Julia A. Kiehlbauch,
Lei Chen,
Maroya Spalding Walters,
Maria Sjölund-Karlsson,
J. Kamile Rasheed,
Alexander J. Kallen,
Alison Laufer Halpin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
mbio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.562
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 2161-2129
pISSN - 2150-7511
DOI - 10.1128/mbio.00440-18
Subject(s) - tigecycline , colistin , klebsiella pneumoniae , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotic resistance , plasmid , biology , antimicrobial , antibiotics , drug resistance , virology , gene , genetics , escherichia coli
Antimicrobial resistance is a threat to public health globally and leads to an estimated 23,000 deaths annually in the United States alone. Here, we report the genomic characterization of an unusual Klebsiella pneumoniae , nonsusceptible to all 26 antibiotics tested, that was isolated from a U.S.
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