TABLE 3.

Clinical and microbiological characteristics of ESBL-producing hvKP isolates

Clinical characteristic	Value for patient isolate:
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Age (yr)	76	76	49	43	60	53	20	53	62	48	1 mo
Gender	Male	Male	Male	Female	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Female	Male
City	Shanghai	Guangzhou	Guangzhou	Shenyang	Shenyang	Shenyang	Tianjin	Xi'an	Beijing	Jinan	Wuhan
Specimen type	Blood	Sputum	Sputum	Bile	Bile	Blood	Blood	Blood	Blood	Blood	Blood
Date of specimen collection (yr/mo/day)	2013/4/13	2013/4/2	2013/3/6	2013/1/31	2013/2/18	2013/1/29	2013/3/17	2013/2/25	2013/7/23	2013/7/26	2013/3/26
Infection type	Septicemia	Pneumonia	Pneumonia	Liver abscess	Abdominal infection	Liver abscess	Septicemia	Bacteremia	Septicemia	Bacteremia	Septicemia
Clinical outcome	Survived	Survived	Survived	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Survived	Survived	Survived	Survived	Survived
β-Lactamase(s)	SHV-75, CTX-M-55	SHV-11, TEM-1, CTX-M-55	SHV-11, TEM-1, CTX-M-55	SHV-11, TEM-1, CTX-M-like	SHV-11, TEM-1, CTX-M-like	SHV-11, TEM-1, CTX-M-like	SHV-148	CTX-M-14	SHV-11, CTX-M-14	CTX-M-14	SHV-11, TEM-53
Virulence-associated features
String test	+	−	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	−	+
cps genotyping	K20	K1	K1	K1	K20	K20	K2	K1	K nontypeable	K nontypeable	K2
rmpA gene	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
MLST	ST420	ST23	ST23	ST268	ST268	ST268	ST1658	ST367	ST17	ST35	ST65