Molecular Epidemiology of and Risk Factors for Extensively Drug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Infections in Southwestern China: A Retrospective Study

• Main Authors: Xiaolang Tian (Author), Changwu Huang (Author), Xiaoli Ye (Author), Hongyan Jiang (Author), Rufang Zhang (Author), Xiaofang Hu (Author), Dongshuang Xu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The increasing prevalence of extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (XDR-KP) poses a serious threat to clinical anti-infective treatment. This retrospective study assessed the molecular epidemiology of and risk factors for infections with XDR-KP to investigate the mechanism of...