Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae as Unexpected Cause of Fatal Outbreak in Captive Marmosets, Brazil
Juliana Mariotti Guerra, Natália Coelho Couto de A. Fernandes, Alessandra Loureiro Morales dos Santos, Joana de Souza Pereira Barrel, Bruno Simões Sergio Petri, Liliane Milanelo, Monique Ribeiro Tiba-Casas, Alcina Maria Liserre, Cláudia Regina Gonçalves, Cláudio Tavares Sacchi, José Luiz Catão-Dias, and Carlos Henrique Camargo
Author affiliations: Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil (J.M. Guerra, N.C.C.A. Fernandes, A.L.M. dos Santos, J.S.P. Barrel, M.R. Tiba-Casas, A.M. Liserre, C.R Gonçalves., C.T Sacchi., C.H. Camargo); Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (N.C.C.A. Fernandes, A.L.M. dos Santos, J.L. Catão-Dias); Parque Ecológico do Tietê, São Paulo (B.S.S. Petri, L. Milanelo)
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Figure 2. Dendrogram and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) typing of XbaI-restricted Klebsiella pneumoniae strains from captive marmosets in investigation of a fatal epizootic caused by highly virulent K. pneumoniae sequence type 86 in Brazil, 2019. PFGE profiles were defined based on 100% Dice similarity cutoff value of the UPGMA clustering method (1.5% optimization; 1.5% tolerance). The Universal Size Standard Strain H9812 (Salmonella Braenderup) was used as reference in all gels. NA, not applicable.
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