Draft Genome Sequence of the First Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae Isolate from a Bloodstream Infection

Fabio Arena; Lucia Henrici De Angelis; Filippo Pieralli; Vincenzo Di Pilato; Tommaso Giani; Francesca Torricelli; Marco Maria D'Andrea; Gian Maria Rossolini

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00952-15

Draft Genome Sequence of the First Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae Isolate from a Bloodstream Infection

Genome Announc. 2015 Sep 17;3(5):e00952-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00952-15.

Authors

Fabio Arena¹, Lucia Henrici De Angelis¹, Filippo Pieralli², Vincenzo Di Pilato³, Tommaso Giani¹, Francesca Torricelli⁴, Marco Maria D'Andrea¹, Gian Maria Rossolini⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
² Internal Medicine Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
³ Department of Surgery and Translational Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
⁴ Genetic Diagnostic Unit, Florence Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
⁵ Department 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 [email protected].

Abstract

Klebsiella quasipneumoniae is a recently described species, formerly identified as K. pneumoniae phylogroup KpII. Information on pathogenic and virulence potential of this species are lacking. We sequenced the genome of a hypermucoviscous K. quasipneumoniae clinical isolate showing a virulence genes content (allABCDRS, kfuABC, and mrkABCDFHIJ) peculiar to hypervirulent K. pneumoniae strains.