Annals of Laboratory Medicine

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First Report of KPC-2-Producing Hafnia paralvei: Evidence of Horizontal Gene Transfer from Klebsiella pneumoniae

  • Sun-mi Cho (Department of Laboratory Medicine, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University) ;
  • Myung Seo Kang (Department of Laboratory Medicine, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University) ;
  • Seong Geun Hong (Department of Laboratory Medicine, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University)
  • Received : 2025.09.01
  • Accepted : 2026.01.13
  • Published : 2026.05.01
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This work was supported by the Korea Medical Device Development Fund (grant no. RS-2020-KD000020).

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