An abnormal multidrug-resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolate without rmpA or rmpA2

Zhien He, Liwen Cao, Yuanyuan Dai, Huaiwei Lu, Baolin Sun , and Yujie Li

1Department of Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China;

2School of the Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;

3Department of Clinical Laboratory, the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Hefei 230001, China

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■ A fatal multidrug-resistant hypervirulentK.pneumoniae, 21072329, was reported.

■ Multidrug-resistant hypervirulentK.pneumoniae21072329 withoutrmpAandrmpA2.

■ Multidrug-resistant hypervirulentK.pneumoniae21072329 carried only one siderophore of yersiniabactin.