Virulence Factors, Capsular Serotypes and Antimicrobial Resistance of Hypervirulent and Classical in Southeast Iran.

Background: The present study was conducted to investigate the distribution of virulence factors, capsular serotypes and antibiotic resistance properties of classical (cKP) and hypermucoviscous/hypervirulent (hvKP) isolated from different clinical specimens in Kerman, south-east of Iran.

Materials And Methods: A total of 146 isolates were obtained from different clinical specimens. HvKP isolates were identified using the string test.