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Newest firstKlebsiella pneumoniae and related species are a common cause of healthcare-associated infections. The gut is a major Klebsiella reservoir and gut colonization is a risk factor for developing an extraintestinal Klebsiella infection. Patients can be colonized by multiple Klebsiella strains or even species in the gut simultaneously, and there is high concordance between the gut colonizing- and infection causing-strai…
Open article record in new tab ↗There is an urgent need to improve our understanding of how new antibiotic resistant organisms emerge and spread. A high-priority resistance threat is the ST258 lineage of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. Here, we studied resistance to the last-line drug colistin among ST258 by tracking its evolution across 21 U.S. hospitals over the course of a year. Phylogenetic analysis supported a significant fitnes…