Complete Genome Sequence of a Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Environmental Isolate from Zanzibar, Tanzania, Harboring Novel Insertion Elements and Two blaCTX-M-15 Genes

Claire Lallement; Karen A Krogfelt; Ole Skovgaard; Lotte Jelsbak

doi:10.1128/mra.00263-22

Complete Genome Sequence of a Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Environmental Isolate from Zanzibar, Tanzania, Harboring Novel Insertion Elements and Two bla_CTX-M-15 Genes

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2022 Aug 18;11(8):e0026322. doi: 10.1128/mra.00263-22. Epub 2022 Jul 14.

Authors

Claire Lallement¹, Karen A Krogfelt¹, Ole Skovgaard¹, Lotte Jelsbak¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.

Abstract

Here, we report the annotated whole-genome sequence of Klebsiella pneumoniae strain KP_3b, isolated in Zanzibar, Tanzania, from plastic litter. The strain is extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) producing and multidrug resistant, encoding 17 resistance genes, most of which are located on a 230,544-bp plasmid. The isolate contains two copies of the bla_CTX-M-15 gene and novel insertion elements.