Communications Biology (Jun 2021)

Clinical evolution of ST11 carbapenem resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae

  • Miaomiao Xie,
  • Xuemei Yang,
  • Qi Xu,
  • Lianwei Ye,
  • Kaichao Chen,
  • Zhiwei Zheng,
  • Ning Dong,
  • Qiaoling Sun,
  • Lingbin Shu,
  • Danxia Gu,
  • Edward Wai-Chi Chan,
  • Rong Zhang,
  • Sheng Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02148-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Carbapenem-resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae strains are emerging. Here Xie et al. show that these phenotypes are carried on a plasmid formed from the fusion of a virulence plasmid with a conjugative plasmid.