Whole-Genome Sequences of Two Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella quasipneumoniae Strains Isolated from a Tertiary Hospital in Johor, Malaysia

Han Ming Gan; Ganeswrie Rajasekaram; Wilhelm Wei Han Eng; Priyatharisni Kaniappan; Amreeta Dhanoa

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00768-17

Whole-Genome Sequences of Two Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella quasipneumoniae Strains Isolated from a Tertiary Hospital in Johor, Malaysia

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 10;5(32):e00768-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00768-17.

Authors

Han Ming Gan^{1

2

3}, Ganeswrie Rajasekaram⁴, Wilhelm Wei Han Eng^{1

2}, Priyatharisni Kaniappan⁴, Amreeta Dhanoa^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Genomics Facility, Tropical Medicine and Biology Platform, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
² School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
³ School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Hospital Sultanah Aminah Johor Bahru, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.
⁵ Genomics Facility, Tropical Medicine and Biology Platform, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia amreeta.dhanoa@monash.edu.
⁶ Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia.

Abstract

We report the whole-genome sequences of two carbapenem-resistant clinical isolates of Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. similipneumoniae obtained from two different patients. Both strains contained three different extended-spectrum β-lactamase genes and showed strikingly high pairwise average nucleotide identity of 99.99% despite being isolated 3 years apart from the same hospital.