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Volume 32, Number 6—June 2026

Synopsis

Emergence of Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase–Producing K. pneumoniae with Penicillin-Binding Protein 3 Insertions, Taiwan, 2021

Tengfei Long, Arianne Lovey, Lillie Sanborn, Yanan Zhao, Zackery P. Bulman, Yi-Tsung LinComments to Author , and Liang ChenComments to Author 
Author affiliation: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA (T. Long, A. Lovey, L. Sanborn, Y. Zhao, L. Chen); Retzky College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (Z.P. Bulman); Centre for Infection Control and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan (Y.-T. Lin); Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei (Y.-T. Lin)

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Figure 1

Penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP3) amino acid alignment of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase–producing K. pneumoniae with PBP3 insertions, Taiwan, 2021. Representative Escherichia coli genomes with wild-type PBP3 (GenBank accession no. WP_000642213) and YRIK (accession no. AWF10252) and YRIN (accession no. YP_005225104) insertions are shown, as is K. pneumoniae genome without insertions. LC1489–91 are patient-derived K. pneumoniae genomes with PBP3 YRIT insertions from this study. Ec, E. coli; Kp, K. pneumoniae.

Figure 1. Penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP3) amino acid alignment of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase–producing K. pneumoniae with PBP3 insertions, Taiwan, 2021. Representative Escherichia coli genomes with wild-type PBP3 (GenBank accession no. WP_000642213) and YRIK (accession no. AWF10252) and YRIN (accession no. YP_005225104) insertions are shown, as is K. pneumoniae genome without insertions. LC1489–91 are patient-derived K. pneumoniae genomes with PBP3 YRIT insertions from this study. Ec, E. coli; Kp, K. pneumoniae.

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