Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Primary Liver Abscess Caused by One Clone of Klebsiella pneumoniae with Two Colonial Morphotypes and Resistotypes

Po-Ren Hsueh*, Juinn-Jong Wu†, Lee-Jene Teng*‡, Yee-Chun Chen*, Chuan-Liang Kao*, Shen-Wu Ho*, and Kwen-Tay Luh*

Author affiliations: *National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; †National Cheng-Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan; ‡National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan;

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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles of XbaI-digested genomic DNAs from eight Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates. Lanes 1 and 2, profiles for isolates A1 and A2 (from patient A); lines 3 to 6, profiles for isolates B1 to B4 (from patient B), respectively; and lanes 7 and 8, isolates of K. pneumoniae from two other patients used as control strains. Lane M, bacteriophage lamdba DNA concatemers (GibcoBRL, Gaithersburg, MD)

Figure 2. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles of XbaI-digested genomic DNAs from eight Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates. Lanes 1 and 2, profiles for isolates A1 and A2 (from patient A); lines 3 to 6, profiles for isolates B1 to B4 (from patient B), respectively; and lanes 7 and 8, isolates of K. pneumoniae from two other patients used as control strains. Lane M, bacteriophage lamdba DNA concatemers (GibcoBRL, Gaithersburg, MD)

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