Carriage of Capsular Serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 23 Strains in Healthy Microbiology Laboratory Staff in Russia

Ekaterina S Kuzina; Tatiana S Novikova; Viktor I Solomentsev; Angelika A Sizova; Eugeny I Astashkin; Nadezhda K Fursova

doi:10.1128/MRA.00349-21

Carriage of Capsular Serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 23 Strains in Healthy Microbiology Laboratory Staff in Russia

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 May 13;10(19):e00349-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00349-21.

Authors

Ekaterina S Kuzina¹, Tatiana S Novikova², Viktor I Solomentsev², Angelika A Sizova², Eugeny I Astashkin², Nadezhda K Fursova¹

Affiliations

¹ State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obolensk, Moscow Region, Russia e.leonova@mail.ru n-fursova@yandex.ru.
² State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obolensk, Moscow Region, Russia.

Abstract

Klebsiella pneumoniae causes both nosocomial and community-associated infections. Among the hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (hvKP) isolates, K1 is the most common capsular serotype. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of 3 K1-type (sequence type 23) K. pneumoniae strains isolated from healthy microbiology laboratory staff in Russia.