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American Society for Microbiology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 9(56), 2018
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.00776-18
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Identification of Biomarkers for Differentiation of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae from Classical K. pneumoniae
Journal article published in 2018 by
Thomas A. Russo,
Kleper de Almeda,
Ruth Olson,
Chi-Tai Fang 
,
Nicole Stoesser ,
Mark Miller,
Ulrike MacDonald,
Alan Hutson,
Jason H. Barker,
Ricardo M. La Hoz ,
James R. Johnson,
Martin Backer,
Rajinder Bajwa,
Andrew T. Catanzaro,
Derrick Crook
and other authors.
,
Nicole Stoesser ,
Mark Miller,
Ulrike MacDonald,
Alan Hutson,
Jason H. Barker,
Ricardo M. La Hoz ,
James R. Johnson,
Martin Backer,
Rajinder Bajwa,
Andrew T. Catanzaro,
Derrick Crook
and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract
A hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) pathotype is undergoing global dissemination. In contrast to the usual health care-associated epidemiology of classical K. pneumoniae (cKp) infections, hvKp causes tissue-invasive infections in otherwise healthy individuals from the community, often involving multiple sites.