Nuno Alexandre Faria, Tiago Touret, Alexandra S Simões, Carlos Palos, Soraia Bispo, José Melo Cristino, Mário Ramirez, João Carriço, Margarida Pinto, Cristina Toscano, Elsa Gonçalves, Maria Luísa Gonçalves, Augusto Costa, Mariana Araújo, Aida Duarte, Hermínia de Lencastre, Mónica Serrano, Raquel Sá-Leão, Maria Miragaia
Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae complex (CR-KP) are a public health concern, causing infections with a high mortality rate, limited therapeutic options and challenging infection control strategies. In Portugal CR-KP rate has increased steeply, but the factors associated to this expansion are poorly explored. To address this question we compared, by phylogenetic and resistome analysis, the draft genomes of 200 CR-KP isolates collected in 2017-2019 from five hospitals in the Lisbon region, Portugal...
March 28, 2024: Journal of Hospital Infection