TY - JOUR
T1 - Associations of the major international high-risk resistant clones and virulent clones with specific ompK36 allele groups in Klebsiella pneumoniae in Taiwan
AU - Yan, J. J.
AU - Wang, M. C.
AU - Zheng, P. X.
AU - Tsai, L. H.
AU - Wu, J. J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants NCKUH-10301001 ( National Cheng Kung University Hospital , Taiwan) and NSC 101-2320-B-006-012-MY2 ( Ministry of Science and Technology , Taiwan).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Authors.
PY - 2015/5/1
Y1 - 2015/5/1
N2 - This study was conducted to investigate the association between ompK36 variants and international high-risk clones in Klebsiella pneumoniae. Fifty-nine sequence types (STs) divided into four ompK36 allele groups (groups A to D) were identified among 185 K.pneumoniae isolates. The major high-risk clones (29 ST11, 13 ST15, 7 ST37 and 1 ST147 isolates) were assigned to group A, while 6 STs (15 ST23, 2 ST65, 3 ST86, 1 ST163, 1 ST373 and 2 ST375 isolates) associated with pyogenic liver abscess were assigned to group C. The genotyping assay developed in this study may be useful for screening of epidemic STs.
AB - This study was conducted to investigate the association between ompK36 variants and international high-risk clones in Klebsiella pneumoniae. Fifty-nine sequence types (STs) divided into four ompK36 allele groups (groups A to D) were identified among 185 K.pneumoniae isolates. The major high-risk clones (29 ST11, 13 ST15, 7 ST37 and 1 ST147 isolates) were assigned to group A, while 6 STs (15 ST23, 2 ST65, 3 ST86, 1 ST163, 1 ST373 and 2 ST375 isolates) associated with pyogenic liver abscess were assigned to group C. The genotyping assay developed in this study may be useful for screening of epidemic STs.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nmni.2015.01.002
DO - 10.1016/j.nmni.2015.01.002
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:84925018463
VL - 5
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - New Microbes and New Infections
JF - New Microbes and New Infections
SN - 2052-2975
ER -