FIG 1.
Dendrographic percent relatedness of K. pneumoniae CRE-185 recovered from an OSUWMC patient stool sample and 5 blaKPC-bearing K. pneumoniae isolates recovered from OSUWMC patient clinical diagnostic submissions during the same month. After electrophoresis, banding patterns were compared and levels of similarity were assigned using generally accepted criteria (7). blaKPC-bearing K. pneumoniae isolates were assessed using the Dice coefficient similarity index and the unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic averages with clustering settings of 1.00% optimization and 1.00% band position tolerance via BioNumerics software (Applied Maths, Kortrijk, Belgium).