Draft Genome Sequence of an Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Positive Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain with Novel Sequence Type 2318 Isolated from a Neonate

Chaitra Shankar; Sridhar Santhanam; Manish Kumar; Vijay Gupta; Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi; Balaji Veeraraghavan

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01273-16

Draft Genome Sequence of an Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Positive Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain with Novel Sequence Type 2318 Isolated from a Neonate

Genome Announc. 2016 Nov 10;4(6):e01273-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01273-16.

Authors

Chaitra Shankar¹, Sridhar Santhanam², Manish Kumar², Vijay Gupta², Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi¹, Balaji Veeraraghavan³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
² Department of Neonatology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
³ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India vbalaji@cmcvellore.ac.in.

Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance among hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae is increasingly reported. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of a hypervirulent K. pneumoniae strain isolated from a neonate with sepsis belonging to novel sequence type 2318 (ST2318).

Grants and funding

This work was funded by Fluid Research Grant (IRB min no. 9616), Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.