Reduced Virulence and Enhanced Host Adaption during Antibiotics Therapy: a Story of a Within-Host Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 11 Evolution in a Patient with a Serious Scrotal Abscess

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) has disseminated worldwide and can cause life-threatening infections, including pneumonia, bloodstream infections, urinary tract infections, intraabdominal infection, liver abscess, and meningitis. CRKP infection is the leading cause of high mortality in hospitals.