Emergence and Expansion of a Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Clone Are Associated with Plasmid-Borne
bla
KPC-2
and Virulence-Related Genes

Yanyan Hu; Congcong Liu; Qi Wang; Yu Zeng; Qiaoling Sun; Linbin Shu; Jiayue Lu; Jiacang Cai; Shaolin Wang; Rong Zhang; Zuowei Wu

doi:10.1128/mSystems.00154-21

mSystems (Jun 2021)

Emergence and Expansion of a Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Clone Are Associated with Plasmid-Borne bla KPC-2 and Virulence-Related Genes

Yanyan Hu,
Congcong Liu,
Qi Wang,
Yu Zeng,
Qiaoling Sun,
Linbin Shu,
Jiayue Lu,
Jiacang Cai,
Shaolin Wang,
Rong Zhang,
Zuowei Wu

Affiliations

Yanyan Hu: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Congcong Liu: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Qi Wang: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Yu Zeng: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Qiaoling Sun: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Linbin Shu: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Jiayue Lu: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Jiacang Cai: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Shaolin Wang: ORCiD; College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Rong Zhang: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Zuowei Wu: ORCiD; Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00154-21
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6, no. 3

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Health care-associated infections, also known as nosocomial infections, are the most frequent adverse events in health care delivery worldwide, causing high rates of morbidity and mortality and high health care costs. Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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ISSN: 2379-5077 (Online)
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Microbiology
Website: https://journals.asm.org/journal/msystems

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