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SUBMITTER: Imai K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6842162 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Imai Kazuo K Ishibashi Noriomi N Kodana Masahiro M Tarumoto Norihito N Sakai Jun J Kawamura Toru T Takeuchi Shinichi S Taji Yoshitada Y Ebihara Yasuhiro Y Ikebuchi Kenji K Murakami Takashi T Maeda Takuya T Mitsutake Kotaro K Maesaki Shigefumi S
BMC infectious diseases 20191108 1
<h4>Background</h4>Klebsiella variicola and K. quasipneumoniae are new species distinguishable from K. pneumoniae but they are often misidentified as K. pneumoniae in clinical settings. Several reports have demonstrated the possibility that the virulence factors and clinical features differ among these three phylogroups. In this study, we aimed to clarify whether there were differences in clinical and bacterial features between the three phylogroups isolated from patients with bloodstream infect ...[more]