Draft genome of a hypervirulent Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. similipneumoniae with novel sequence type ST2320 isolated from a chronic liver disease patient

J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2017 Jun:9:30-31. doi: 10.1016/j.jgar.2017.01.004. Epub 2017 Mar 18.

Authors

Chaitra Shankar¹, Laura E B Nabarro¹, Dhiviya Prabaa Muthuirulandi Sethuvel¹, Ayyan Raj¹, Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi¹, George Priya Doss², Balaji Veeraraghavan³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004, Tamil Nadu, India.
² School of Bio Sciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
³ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address: vbalaji@cmcvellore.ac.in.

PMID: 28323229
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2017.01.004

No abstract available

Keywords: Hypervirulent; Klebsiella quasipneumoniae; Novel sequence type; ST2320.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Genome, Bacterial*
Hepatitis / microbiology
Humans
India
Klebsiella / classification
Klebsiella / genetics*
Klebsiella / isolation & purification
Klebsiella / pathogenicity
Klebsiella Infections / microbiology
Male
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Sequence Analysis, DNA*
Virulence