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Table 3 Microbiological features of patients with VAP due to hvKp

From: Characteristics of ventilator-associated pneumonia due to hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae genotype in genetic background for the elderly in two tertiary hospitals in China

Characteristic

HvKp(34)

cKp(39)

P value

K serotype

 K1

17 (50.0%)

1 (2.6%)

0.000

 K2

7 (2.9%)

2 (5.1%)

0.073

 K5

2 (5.9%)

0 (0%)

0.213

 K20

2 (5.9%)

2 (5.1%)

1.000

 K54

3 (8.8%)

0 (0%)

0.096

 K57

4 (11.8%)

3 (7.7%)

0.849

rmpA

27 (79.4%)

4 (10.3%)

0.000

rmpA2

28 (82.4%)

5 (12.8%)

0.000

magA

30 (88.2%)

17 (43.6%)

0.000

Hypermucoviscosity

29 (85.3%)

8 (20.5%)

0.000