The emergence of the hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) strains among circulating clonal complex 147 (CC147) harbouring bla NDM/OXA-48 carbapenemases in a tertiary care center of Iran

• Main Authors: Omid Pajand (Author), Narges Darabi (Author), Maedeh Arab (Author), Raheb Ghorbani (Author), Zakaria Bameri (Author), Ali Ebrahimi (Author), Zoya Hojabri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Klebsiella pneumoniae is a public health concern because of its ability to develop multidrug resistance and hypervirulent genotypes, of those capsular types K1 and K2 cause community and nosocomial life-threatening infections. This study aimed to determine the antibiotic suscepti...