Polyphasic characterization of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates suggests vertical transmission of the bla_KPC-3 gene

• Catarina Ferreira ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Catarina Ferreira, Santosh K. Bikkarolla

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation CBQF - Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina – Laboratório Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal

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• Santosh K. Bikkarolla ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Catarina Ferreira, Santosh K. Bikkarolla

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Chemical Biology, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Karolin Frykholm,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Chemical Biology, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Saga Pohjanen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Chemical Biology, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Margarida Brito,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Serviço de Virologia IPOP-FG, Porto, Portugal

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• Catarina Lameiras,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Serviço de Microbiologia IPOP-FG, Porto, Portugal

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• Olga C. Nunes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation LEPABE - Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Fredrik Westerlund ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: cmanaia@porto.ucp.pt (CMM); fredrikw@chalmers.se (FW)

  Affiliation Division of Chemical Biology, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4767-4868

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• Célia M. Manaia

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: cmanaia@porto.ucp.pt (CMM); fredrikw@chalmers.se (FW)

  Affiliation CBQF - Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina – Laboratório Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal

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