Klebsiella pneumoniae: a major worldwide source and shuttle for antibiotic resistance

S Navon-Venezia, K Kondratyeva… - FEMS microbiology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Klebsiella pneumoniae is an important multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogen affecting
humans and a major source for hospital infections associated with high morbidity and …

The role of epidemic resistance plasmids and international high-risk clones in the spread of multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae

AJ Mathers, G Peirano, JDD Pitout - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131) and Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 emerged in
the 2000s as important human pathogens, have spread extensively throughout the world …

A systematic review and meta-analyses of the clinical epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae

K van Loon, AF Voor in 't holt… - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are major health care-associated
pathogens and responsible for hospital outbreaks worldwide. To prevent a further increase …

Diversity, virulence, and antimicrobial resistance of the KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST307 clone

L Villa, C Feudi, D Fortini, S Brisse… - Microbial …, 2017 - microbiologyresearch.org
The global spread of Klebsiella pneumoniae producing Klebsiella pneumoniae
carbapenemase (KPC) has been mainly associated with the dissemination of high-risk …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and clonal diversity of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae causing neonatal infections: A systematic review of 128 articles across 30 …

Y Hu, Y Yang, Y Feng, Q Fang, C Wang, F Zhao… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Klebsiella pneumoniae is the most common pathogen causing neonatal
infections, leading to high mortality worldwide. Along with increasing antimicrobial use in …

[HTML][HTML] Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in children, United States, 1999–2012

LK Logan, JP Renschler, S Gandra… - Emerging infectious …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections is increasing
in the United States. However, few studies have addressed their epidemiology in children …

Control of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae outbreaks in acute settings: an evidence review

CE French, C Coope, L Conway, JPT Higgins… - Journal of Hospital …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background In recent years, infections with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae
(CPE) have been increasing globally and present a major public health challenge. Aim To …

[HTML][HTML] Pathogenomics and Evolutionary Epidemiology of Multi-Drug Resistant Clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolated from Pretoria, South Africa

NM Mbelle, C Feldman, JO Sekyere, NE Maningi… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is increasingly being implicated in invasive
infections worldwide with high mortalities. Forty-two multidrug resistant (MDR) K …

[HTML][HTML] An Update of the Evolving Epidemic of blaKPC Carrying Klebsiella pneumoniae in Sicily, Italy, 2014: Emergence of Multiple Non-ST258 Clones

C Bonura, M Giuffrè, A Aleo, T Fasciana, F Di Bernardo… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background In Italy, Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase producing K. pneumoniae
(KPC-Kp) strains are highly endemic and KPC producing CC258 is reported as the widely …

Clinically Relevant Plasmid-Host Interactions Indicate that Transcriptional and Not Genomic Modifications Ameliorate Fitness Costs of Klebsiella pneumoniae …

MMC Buckner, HTH Saw, RN Osagie, A McNally… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
The rapid dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) around the globe is largely due to
mobile genetic elements, such as plasmids. They confer resistance to critically important …