Complete Genome Sequences of Three Uropathogenic Klebsiella quasipneumoniae Strains Isolated from Postmenopausal Women with Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection

Sundharamani Venkitapathi; Belle M Sharon; Tahira A Ratna; Amanda P Arute; Philippe E Zimmern; Nicole J De Nisco

doi:10.1128/MRA.00073-21

Complete Genome Sequences of Three Uropathogenic Klebsiella quasipneumoniae Strains Isolated from Postmenopausal Women with Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Mar 18;10(11):e00073-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00073-21.

Authors

Sundharamani Venkitapathi^#¹, Belle M Sharon^#¹, Tahira A Ratna¹, Amanda P Arute¹, Philippe E Zimmern², Nicole J De Nisco³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA.
² Department of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA [email protected].

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Recurrent urinary tract infection (rUTI) poses a major health issue, especially among postmenopausal women. We report complete genome sequences of three Klebsiella quasipneumoniae strains isolated from the urine of postmenopausal women with rUTI. K. quasipneumoniae is a recently identified Klebsiella species with clinical and virulence characteristics distinct from those of K. pneumoniae.