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. 2008 Dec;46(12):4061-3.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01577-08. Epub 2008 Oct 29.

Evidence for clonal dissemination of the serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae strain causing invasive liver abscesses in Korea

Doo Ryeon Chung  1 , Ha Rim Lee, Seung Soon Lee, Shin Woo Kim, Hyun-Ha Chang, Sook-In Jung, Myoung-don Oh, Kwan Soo Ko, Cheol-In Kang, Kyong Ran Peck, Jae-Hoon Song
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Evidence for clonal dissemination of the serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae strain causing invasive liver abscesses in Korea

Doo Ryeon Chung et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Dec.

Abstract

Seventy-three liver abscess isolates of serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae from a nationwide collection in Korea were genotypically characterized using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing. We found that serotype K1 K. pneumoniae strains that caused liver abscesses in Korea were genotypically related and that most were sequence type 23.

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Dendrogram of PFGE profiles and MLST STs of the K1 serotype K. pneumoniae liver abscess isolates.
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