Genomic investigation of a suspected Klebsiella pneumoniae outbreak in a neonatal care unit in sub-Saharan Africa

• Main Authors: Jennifer Cornick, Patrick Musicha, Chikondi Peno, Ezgi Seager, Pui Ying Iroh Tam, Sithembile Bilima, Aisleen Bennett, Neil Kennedy, Nicholas Feasey, Eva Heinz, Amy K. Cain
• Other Authors: Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme
• Format: Article
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/76317
• Institution: Mahidol University

A special-care neonatal unit from a large public hospital in Malawi was noted as having more frequent, difficult-to-treat infec-tions, and a suspected outbreak of multi-drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae was investigated using genomic characterisa-tion. All K. pneumoniae bloodstream infections (BS...