1. Assessing Molecular Epidemiology of Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-KP) with MLST and MALDI-TOF in Central China
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Chunhui Li, Sidi Liu, Jia Wang, Qingya Dou, Xin Huang, Mingxiang Zou, Jie Li, Qun Yan, Zhong Peng, Yao Liu, Anhua Wu, Ximao Wen, Jun Yang, Liang Chen, Xiujuan Meng, Chenchao Fu, Wenen Liu, Xun Huang, and Juping Duan
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,China ,Carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ,lcsh:Medicine ,Central china ,Drug resistance ,Biology ,Article ,Teaching hospital ,Microbiology ,Disease Outbreaks ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Drug Resistance, Bacterial ,Humans ,lcsh:Science ,Retrospective Studies ,Molecular Epidemiology ,Multidisciplinary ,Molecular epidemiology ,lcsh:R ,Ms analysis ,Outbreak ,Klebsiella Infections ,Klebsiella pneumoniae ,030104 developmental biology ,Carbapenems ,Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization ,Multilocus sequence typing ,lcsh:Q ,Female ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae (CR-KP) posts significant public health challenge worldwide. The aim of this study is to assess clinical characteristics and molecular epidemiology of CR-KP infections with Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization–time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) in Central China. A total of 71 CR-KP isolates were recovered in a teaching hospital from October 2014 to December 2015. Among all CR-KP isolates, 73.2% (52) produced K. pneumoniae carbapenemases-2 (KPC-2). Eighteen ST types were identified by MLST, among these ST types, forty-seven isolates belonged to ST11 type, which was the predominant outbreak strain in China, and most ST11 isolates produced KPC-2. Eleven mass spectrometry (MS) types were identified by MALDI-TOF MS analysis, 53.5% isolates were MS4 and MS6, which matched with ST11 in MLST analysis. CR-KP infection was associated with increased medical cost and longer hospitalization. Therefore, we found that KPC-2-producing ST11 (MS4 and MS6) CR-KP isolates were the predominant clone identified by MLST and MALDI-TOF, and CR-KP infection was associated with increased hospital costs and longer hospitalization.
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- 2019