A hybrid plasmid formed by recombination of a virulence plasmid and a resistance plasmid in Klebsiella pneumoniae

Xie, MM; Dong, N; Chen, KC; Yang, XM; Ye, LW; Chan, EWC; Zhang, R; Chen, S

Zhang, R (corresponding author), Zhejiang Univ, Sch Med, Dept Clin Lab, Affiliated Hosp 2, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Peoples R China.; Chen, S (corresponding author), City Univ Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.

JOURNAL OF GLOBAL ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE, 2020; 23 (): 466

Abstract

Objective: The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) facilitates simultaneous dissemination of virulen......

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