Multidrug-resistant mcr-1 gene-positive Klebsiella pneumoniae ST307 causing urinary tract infection in a cat.

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The Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) bacterium is responsible for many opportunistic infections such as sepsis, and a multidrug-resistant (MDR) clone sequence type (ST) 307 has recently begun to spread. The objective of this study was to report the first occurrence of this virulent genotype, which was found in the context of a urinary infection in a domestic feline in Brazil. The K. pneumoniae isolate was identified from the urine of a 6-month-old male crossbreed cat using 16S rRNA sequencing. It was then subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing, followed by multilocus sequence typing analysis, and PCR detection of virulence and resistance genes. The antimicrobial susceptibility profile demonstrated that the isolate was MDR and associated with the presence of t

SUBMITTER: Hayakawa Ito de Sousa AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8105429 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature