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A total of 1,281 specimens from 1,024 patients were screened. Phylogenetic analysis classified 44 of these isolates as Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. similipneumoniae (44/1,281 3.4%) and the remaining three as K. quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae. The most common specimen source was urine (21/47 44.7%) followed by blood (14/47 29.8%). K. quasipneumoniae isolates were nonclonal. Carbapenemase-encoding genes (blaNDM and blaOXA-181) were detected in only two isolates (2/47 4.3%). K. quasipneumoniae appears to cause a spectrum of infections similar to those of K. pneumoniae, although higher rates of susceptibility to many commonly tested antimicrobials and low prevalence of virulence genes were demonstrated.
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