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Characterization of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in Belgium

Ahalieyah Anantharajah1,2, Matthieu Deltombe3, Marie de Barsy3

  • 1Department of Clinical Microbiology, National Reference Center for Antibiotic-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli, CHU UCL Namur, Yvoir, Belgium. ahalieyah.anantharajah@saintluc.uclouvain.be.

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases : Official Publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology
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Capsular serotypeHypermucoviscosityHypervirulenceKlebsiella pneumoniaeMolecular epidemiologyWhole genome sequencing

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