Draft Genome Sequences of Novel Sequence Type 3559 Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates Recovered from the Environment

Mutshiene Deogratias Ekwanzala; Phumudzo Budeli; John Barr Dewar; Ilunga Kamika; Maggy Ndombo Benteke Momba

doi:10.1128/MRA.00518-19

Draft Genome Sequences of Novel Sequence Type 3559 Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates Recovered from the Environment

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jun 6;8(23):e00518-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00518-19.

Authors

Mutshiene Deogratias Ekwanzala¹, Phumudzo Budeli², John Barr Dewar³, Ilunga Kamika⁴, Maggy Ndombo Benteke Momba¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental, Water, and Earth Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology, Arcadia Campus, Pretoria, South Africa ekwanzala.md@gmail.com mombamnb@tut.ac.za.
² Department of Metallurgical, Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.
³ Department of Life and Consumer Sciences, University of South Africa, Florida Campus, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Science Campus, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Abstract

Here, we report a novel sequence type, 3559, from four genomes of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from South African hospital wastewater, influent wastewater, river water, and riverbed sediment. The genome annotation indicated a wide variety of resistance genes, including bla _KPC-2, and virulence factors revealing their possible pathogenicity.