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Volume 26, Number 2—February 2020
Research

Novel Subclone of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 11 with Enhanced Virulence and Transmissibility, China

Kai Zhou1, Tingting Xiao1, Sophia David1, Qin Wang, Yanzi Zhou, Lihua Guo, David Aanensen, Kathryn E. Holt, Nicholas R. Thomson, Hajo Grundmann2, Ping Shen2, and Yonghong Xiao2Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: First Affiliated Hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen People’s Hospital); Shenzhen, China (K. Zhou); The Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University, Shenzhen (K. Zhou); Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (T. Xiao, Q. Wang, Y. Zhou, L. Guo, P. Shen, Y. Xiao); Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, Cambridge, UK (S. David, D. Aanensen); University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (K.E. Holt); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (K.E. Holt, N.R. Thomson); Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre, Cambridge (N.R. Thomson); University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (H. Grundmann)

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Table 3

Prevalence of CRKP-ST11 causing BSIs, China, 2014–2016*

Year KP CRKP CRKP-ST11 CRKP-ST11-KL47, rmpA/rmpA2-positive CRKP-ST11-KL64, rmpA/rmpA2-positive
2014 224 10 7 5 (1) 2 (0)
2015 345 31 19 16 (2) 3 (0)
2016
 529
 42
 20
 16 (8)
 4 (1)
Total 1,098 83 46 37 (11) 9 (1)

*Isolates were collected as part of national surveillance for BSIs. BSI, bloodstream infection; CRKP, carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae; KL, capsular loci; KP, Klebsiella pneumoniae; ST, sequence type.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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