AUTHOR=Wang Yonghong , Ouyang Yan , Xu Xiuyu , Sun Shan , Tian Xiaolang , Liu Hang , Xia Yun 

TITLE=Dissemination and characteristics of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in nine district hospitals in southwestern China

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology

VOLUME=Volume 14 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1269408

DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2023.1269408

ISSN=1664-302X

ABSTRACT=Importance: current studies on the epidemiology and antimicrobialresistant characteristics of CRKP and/or HV-CRKP mainly concentrated on large tertiary teaching hospitals and ignored the district-level hospitals.In our study, we found that CRKP strains exhibited a high level of antibiotic resistance, a high proportion of harboring carbapenemases, and hypervirulence phenotype in district hospitals in Southwest, China. These results will further provide support for the prevention and control of nosocomial infection by CRKP in secondary medical institutions.