The Emergence of Bacterial “Hopeful Monsters”

The global spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has largely been driven by the dissemination of successful lineages. A particularly important example is sequence type (ST) 258 of Klebsiella pneumoniae, a common cause of health care-associated infections. Representatives of this lineage carry a va...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Croucher, Nicholas J., Klugman, Keith P.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: American Society of Microbiology 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4128365/