Ann Lab Med.  2021 Mar;41(2):250-254. 10.3343/alm.2021.41.2.250.

Osteomyelitis Caused by Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae: The First Korean Case With Family Spread

• Lee CH
• Chae JD
• Choe W
• Lee HY
• Sohn YH
• Ihm C
• Jeong JH

• KMID: 2512675
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/alm.2021.41.2.250

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  Fig. 1 Characterization of the two Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from the present case. (A) Phylogenetic tree analysis based on tetra-nu-cleotide analysis. (B) Venn diagram of the six clinically associated hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) isolates. Abbreviations: EMC-hvKp-1, blood isolate from the patient; EMC-hvKp-2, stool isolate from the patient’s husband; NTUH-K2044, liver abscess isolate from Taiwan; UTSW Atlanta 01, femoral bone isolate from the USA; ATCC 13883, K. pneumoniae type strain; 1088, carbapenem-resistant hvKP strain from China; SH-1, carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae strain from China; 5, carbapenem-resistant hvKP strain from China.

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