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Objectives: Hypervirulent carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (hv-CRKp) poses a significant threat to public health. This study reports an infection related to hv-CRKp in a premature infant and reveals its colistin resistance and evolutionary mechanisms within the host.
Methods: Three KPC-producing CRKp strains were isolated from a patient with sepsis and CRKp osteoarthritis who had been receiving colistin antimicrobial therapy. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of ceftazidime, ceftazidime-avibactam (CAZ-AVI), meropenem, imipenem, tigecycline, amikacin, minocycline, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, aztreonam, cefepime, cefoperazone/sulbactam, piperacillin/tazobactam, and colistin were determined using the microbroth dilution method. The whole-genome sequencing analysis was conducted to determine the sequence types (STs), virulence genes, and antibiotic resistance genes of the three CRKp strains.
Results: Whole-genome sequencing revealed that all three CRKp strains belonged to the ST11 clone and carried a plasmid encoding blaKPC-2. The three strains all possessed the iucABCDiutA virulence cluster, peg-344 gene, and rmpA/rmpA2 genes, defining them as hv-CRKp. Further experiments and whole-genome analysis revealed that a strain of K. pneuomniae had developed resistance to colistin. The mechanism found to be responsible for colistin resistance was a deletion mutation of approximately 9000 bp including the mgrB gene.
Conclusion: This study characterizes colistin resistance of the ST11 clone hv-CRKp during colistin treatment and its rapid evolution within the host.
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