[Correspondence] Emergence of carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae

The emergence of a hypervirulent plasmid in prevalent strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae threatens the effective prevention and treatment of infections caused by this clinically untreatable pathogen, which could become a serious public health problem globally.1 In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Danxia Gu and colleagues2 reported a fatal outbreak of ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by an emerging carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent K pneumoniae (hvKP) strain that belongs to the prevalent ST11 type of carbapenem-resistant K pneumoniae (CRKP).
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research