Genomic analysis of diversity, population structure, virulence, and antimicrobial resistance inKlebsiella pneumoniae, an urgent threat to public health

Holt, Kathryn E., Wertheim, Heiman, Zadoks, Ruth N., Baker, Stephen, Whitehouse, Chris A., Dance, David, Jenney, Adam, Connor, Thomas R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2394-6504, Hsu, Li Yang, Severin, Juliëtte, Brisse, Sylvain, Cao, Hanwei, Wilksch, Jonathan, Gorrie, Claire, Schultz, Mark B., Edwards, David J., Nguyen, Kinh Van, Nguyen, Trung Vu, Dao, Trinh Tuyet, Mensink, Martijn, Minh, Vien Le, Nhu, Nguyen Thi Khanh, Schultsz, Constance, Kuntaman, Kuntaman, Newton, Paul N., Moore, Catrin E., Strugnell, Richard A. and Thomson, Nicholas R. 2015. Genomic analysis of diversity, population structure, virulence, and antimicrobial resistance inKlebsiella pneumoniae, an urgent threat to public health. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112 (27) , E3574-E3581. 10.1073/pnas.1501049112

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Abstract

Klebsiella pneumoniae is now recognized as an urgent threat to human health because of the emergence of multidrug-resistant strains associated with hospital outbreaks and hypervirulent strains associated with severe community-acquired infections. K. pneumoniae is ubiquitous in the environment and can colonize and infect both plants and animals. However, little is known about the population structure of K. pneumoniae, so it is difficult to recognize or understand the emergence of clinically important clones within this highly genetically diverse species. Here we present a detailed genomic framework for K. pneumoniae based on whole-genome sequencing of more than 300 human and animal isolates spanning four continents. Our data provide genome-wide support for the splitting of K. pneumoniae into three distinct species, KpI (K. pneumoniae), KpII (K. quasipneumoniae), and KpIII (K. variicola). Further, for K. pneumoniae (KpI), the entity most frequently associated with human infection, we show the existence of >150 deeply branching lineages including numerous multidrug-resistant or hypervirulent clones. We show K. pneumoniae has a large accessory genome approaching 30,000 protein-coding genes, including a number of virulence functions that are significantly associated with invasive community-acquired disease in humans. In our dataset, antimicrobial resistance genes were common among human carriage isolates and hospital-acquired infections, which generally lacked the genes associated with invasive disease. The convergence of virulence and resistance genes potentially could lead to the emergence of untreatable invasive K. pneumoniae infections; our data provide the whole-genome framework against which to track the emergence of such threats.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Publisher:	National Academy of Sciences
ISSN:	0027-8424
Date of Acceptance:	11 May 2015
Last Modified:	02 Nov 2022 11:31
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/102263

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