American University of Beirut Medical Center

Identification of a hypervirulent extensively drug-resistant ST383 Klebsiella pneumoniae sub-lineage carrying ICEKp5 in Lebanon

ABSTRACT Klebsiella pneumoniae ST383 has emerged as a high-risk clone, characterized by carbapenem resistance and increasing detection of hypervirulence determinants. We describe a phylogenetically distinct ST383 sub-lineage in Lebanon, defined by the acquisition of ICEKp5, which...