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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2008, p. 4061-4063, Vol. 46, No. 12
0095-1137/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01577-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Evidence for Clonal Dissemination of the Serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain Causing Invasive Liver Abscesses in Korea{triangledown}

Doo Ryeon Chung,1* Ha Rim Lee,1 Seung Soon Lee,2 Shin Woo Kim,3 Hyun-Ha Chang,3 Sook-In Jung,4 Myoung-don Oh,5 Kwan Soo Ko,6 Cheol-In Kang,1 Kyong Ran Peck,1 and Jae-Hoon Song1

Division of Infectious Diseases, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul,1 Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang-si,2 Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu,3 Chonnam University Hospital, Gwangju,4 Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul,5 Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea6

Received 14 August 2008/ Returned for modification 29 September 2008/ Accepted 16 October 2008

Seventy-three liver abscess isolates of serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae from a nationwide collection in Korea were genotypically characterized using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing. We found that serotype K1 K. pneumoniae strains that caused liver abscesses in Korea were genotypically related and that most were sequence type 23.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 50 Ilwon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea. Phone: 82-2-3410-0323. Fax: 82-2-3410-0041. E-mail: drchung{at}skku.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 29 October 2008.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2008, p. 4061-4063, Vol. 46, No. 12
0095-1137/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01577-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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