Klebsiella variicola Is a Frequent Cause of Bloodstream Infection in the Stockholm Area, and Associated with Higher Mortality Compared to K. pneumoniae

• Makaoui Maatallah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Makaoui Maatallah, Malin Vading

  Affiliation Laboratoire d’Analyse, Traitement et Valorisation des Polluants de l’Environnement et des Produits, Faculté de Pharmacie, University of Monastir, Montasir, Tunisia

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• Malin Vading ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Makaoui Maatallah, Malin Vading

  Affiliations Clinical Microbiology, MTC – Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University, Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Muhammad Humaun Kabir,

  Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, MTC – Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University, Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Amina Bakhrouf,

  Affiliation Laboratoire d’Analyse, Traitement et Valorisation des Polluants de l’Environnement et des Produits, Faculté de Pharmacie, University of Monastir, Montasir, Tunisia

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• Mats Kalin,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Pontus Nauclér,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Sylvain Brisse,

  Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Paris, France, CNRS, Paris, France

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• Christian G. Giske

  * E-mail: christian.giske@karolinska.se

  Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, MTC – Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University, Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

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