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Virulence Volume 8, 2017 - Issue 8
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Letter to the editor

Infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae with hypermucoviscous phenotype: A case report and literature review

Fabio ArenaDepartment of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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Lucia Henrici De AngelisDepartment of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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Marco Maria D'AndreaDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Antonio CannatelliDepartment of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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Lucina FossatiDepartment of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, AOU, City of Health and Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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Vincenzo Di PilatoDepartment of Surgery and Translational Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Tommaso GianiDepartment of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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Rossana CavalloDepartment of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, AOU, City of Health and Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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Gian Maria RossoliniDepartment of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Siena, Italy;Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy;Clinical Microbiology and Virology Unit, Florence Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy;Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, Florence, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1900-1908 | Received 30 Sep 2016, Accepted 19 Jan 2017, Published online: 23 Feb 2017
 
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Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest

No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Dr. Pei-Fang Hsieh and Dr. Jin-Town Wang for providing us with the NTUH-K2044 strain. We also thank Dr. Flora Marzia Liotti and Dr. Giulia Menchinelli for the assistance in the construction of the virulence genes database and Dr. Mattia Palmieri for assistance with the G. mellonella experiments.

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