Evidence for Clonal Dissemination of the Serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain Causing Invasive Liver Abscesses in Korea

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...

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Published inJournal of Clinical Microbiology Vol. 46; no. 12; pp. 4061 - 4063
Main Authors Chung, Doo Ryeon, Lee, Ha Rim, Lee, Seung Soon, Kim, Shin Woo, Chang, Hyun-Ha, Jung, Sook-In, Oh, Myoung-don, Ko, Kwan Soo, Kang, Cheol-In, Peck, Kyong Ran, Song, Jae-Hoon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC American Society for Microbiology 01.12.2008
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Subjects
Bacteriology
Biological and medical sciences
Cluster Analysis
DNA Fingerprinting
DNA, Bacterial - genetics
Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
Epidemiology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Genotype
Humans
Klebsiella Infections - epidemiology
Klebsiella Infections - microbiology
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Klebsiella pneumoniae - classification
Klebsiella pneumoniae - genetics
Klebsiella pneumoniae - immunology
Klebsiella pneumoniae - isolation & purification
Korea - epidemiology
Liver Abscess - epidemiology
Liver Abscess - microbiology
Microbiology
Miscellaneous
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Serotyping
Asia
Korea
Microbiology
Dissemination
Bacteria
Digestive diseases
Hepatic disease
Liver abscess
Serotype
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Enterobacteriaceae
Strain
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Summary: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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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 50 Ilwon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea. Phone: 82-2-3410-0323. Fax: 82-2-3410-0041. E-mail: drchung@skku.edu
ISSN:0095-1137
1098-660X
DOI:10.1128/JCM.01577-08