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American Society for Microbiology, Genome Announcements, 3(2), 2014

DOI: 10.1128/genomea.00558-14

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Genome Sequences of Two Carbapenemase-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 Isolates

This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Klebsiella pneumoniae , an ESKAPE group ( Enterococcus faecium , Staphylococcus aureus , Klebsiella pneumoniae , Acinetobacter baumannii , Pseudomonas aeruginosa , and Enterobacter species) pathogen, has acquired multiple antibiotic resistance genes and is becoming a serious public health threat. Here, we report the genome sequences of two representative strains of K. pneumoniae from the emerging K. pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) outbreak in northeast Ohio belonging to sequence type 258 (ST258) (isolates Kb140 and Kb677, which were isolated from blood and urine, respectively). Both isolates harbor a bla KPC gene, and strain Kb140 carries bla KPC-2 , while Kb677 carries bla KPC-3 .