Carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates at a tertiary hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, are dominated by specific local clones rather than previously described international lineages

• Kedišaletše Moloto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8360-6686

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• Mae Newton-Foot,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service, Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Angela Dramowski,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Stefany Ayala-Montaño,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Infection Prevention and Control, Medical Center University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Ifeoluwa Akintayo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Infection Prevention and Control, Medical Center University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Andrew Whitelaw,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service, Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Sandra Reuter

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sandra.reuter@uniklinik-freiburg.de

  Affiliation Institute for Infection Prevention and Control, Medical Center University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1672-5789

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