Genomic diversity, virulence, and antimicrobial resistance of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains from cows and humans

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Klebsiella pneumoniae is a leading cause of severe infections in humans and dairy cows, and these infections are rapidly becoming untreatable due to the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains. However, little is known about the relationship between bovine and human K. pneumoniae isolates at the genome population level. Here, we investigated the genomic structures, pangenomic profiles, virulence determinants, and resistomes of 308 K. pneumoniae isolates from humans and dairy cows, including 96 newly sequenced cow isolates. We identified 177 functional protein families that were significantly different across human and bovine isolates; genes expressing proteins related to metal ion (iron, zinc, and calcium) metabolism were significantly more prevalent among the bovine isolates. Siderophore systems were found to be prevalent in both the bovine and the human isolates. In addition, we found that the Klebsiella ferric uptake operon kfuABC was significantly more prevalent in clinical mastitis cases than in healthy cows. Furthermore, on two dairy farms, we identified a unique IncN-type plasmid, pC5, coharboring blaCTX-M-1 and mph(A) genes, which confer resistance to cephalosporins and macrolides, respectively. We provide here the complete annotated sequence of this plasmid.

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Yang, Y., Higgins, C. H., Rehman, I., Galvao, K. N., Brito, I. L., Bicalho, M. L., … Bicalho, R. C. (2019). Genomic diversity, virulence, and antimicrobial resistance of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains from cows and humans. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85(6). https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02654-18

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