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. 2013 Nov;51(11):3877-9.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01730-13. Epub 2013 Sep 4.

First outbreak of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 258 in a hospital in South Korea

Sung Kwan Hong  1 , Dongeun Yong, Kyeongmi Kim, Sang Sook Hong, Seong Geun Hong, Tulgaa Khosbayar, Wonkeun Song, Kyoung Ho Roh, Seok Hoon Jeong, Kyungwon Lee, Yunsop Chong
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First outbreak of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 258 in a hospital in South Korea

Sung Kwan Hong et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Nov.

Abstract

In this study, we report the first outbreak of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from three patients admitted to a neurosurgery department in a South Korean teaching hospital. Multilocus sequence typing showed that the isolates were identical to the previous KPC producers in South Korea and other countries, suggesting clonal spread.

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