Molecular insights into novel environmental strains of Klebsiella quasipneumoniae harboring different antimicrobial-resistance genes.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The emergence of bacterial pathogens in environmental hosts represents a major risk to public health. This study aimed at characterizing seven novel environmental strains of K. quasipneumoniae using a genomic approach which was misidentified by phenotypic methods in a previous batch of 27 species thought to be K. pneumoniae.

Methods

Whole-genome sequencing was performed using the Illumina platform, and the generated raw reads were de novo assembled. Comparative genomic, resistome, virulome, mobilome, and phylogeny were then investigated using dierent bioinformatics tools.

Results

Six strains were identified as K. quasipneumoniae subsp similipneumoniae and one as K. quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae. Al

SUBMITTER: Altayb HN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9878601 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature