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Kwan Soo Ko
Researcher at Sungkyunkwan University
Publications - 325
Citations - 11746
Kwan Soo Ko is an academic researcher from Sungkyunkwan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Acinetobacter baumannii & Klebsiella pneumoniae. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 304 publications receiving 10512 citations. Previous affiliations of Kwan Soo Ko include Samsung & New Generation University College.
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Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions
Nicholas J. Croucher,Simon R. Harris,Christophe Fraser,Michael A. Quail,John Burton,Mark van der Linden,Lesley McGee,Anne von Gottberg,Jae-Hoon Song,Kwan Soo Ko,Bruno Pichon,Stephen Baker,Christopher M. Parry,Lotte Lambertsen,Dea Shahinas,Dylan R. Pillai,Timothy J. Mitchell,Gordon Dougan,Alexander Tomasz,Keith P. Klugman,Keith P. Klugman,Keith P. Klugman,Julian Parkhill,William P. Hanage,William P. Hanage,Stephen D. Bentley +25 more
TL;DR: How genomic plasticity within lineages of recombinogenic bacteria can permit adaptation to clinical interventions over remarkably short time scales is detailed.
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Classification of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) : guidelines for reporting novel SCCmec elements.
Teruyo Ito,Keiichi Hiramatsu,D. Oliviera,H. de Lencastre,Kunyan Zhang,Henrik Westh,Frances G. O'Brien,Philip M. Giffard,David C. Coleman,Fred C. Tenover,Susan Boyle-Vavra,Robert Skov,Mark C. Enright,Barry N. Kreiswirth,Kwan Soo Ko,Hajo Grundmann,Frédéric Laurent,Johanna U. Ericson Sollid,Angela M. Kearns,Angela M. Kearns,Richard V. Goering,Joseph F. John,Robert S. Daum,Bo Söderquist +23 more
TL;DR: Classification of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (S CCmec) : guidelines for reporting novel SCCmec elements.
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Spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus between the community and the hospitals in Asian countries: an ANSORP study
Jae-Hoon Song,Po-Ren Hsueh,Doo Ryeon Chung,Kwan Soo Ko,Cheol-In Kang,Kyong Ran Peck,Joon Sup Yeom,Shin Woo Kim,Hyun-Ha Chang,Yeon Sook Kim,Sook-In Jung,Jun Seong Son,Thomas Man-kit So,M. K. Lalitha,Yonghong Yang,Shao-Guang Huang,Hui Wang,Quan Lu,Celia C. Carlos,Jennifer Perera,Cheng-Hsun Chiu,Jien-Wei Liu,Anan Chongthaleong,Visanu Thamlikitkul,Pham Hung Van,Hyuck Lee,Thomas M. K. So,David Jien-Wei Liu,Dilip Mathai,Jennifer Perera,Tran Van Ngoc +30 more
TL;DR: It is confirmed that MRSA infections in the community have been increasing in Asian countries and data suggest that various MRSA clones have spread between the community and hospitals as well as between countries.
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High prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among clinical Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Asia (an ANSORP study).
Jae-Hoon Song,Sook-In Jung,Kwan Soo Ko,Nayoung Kim,Jun Seong Son,Hyun-Ha Chang,Hyun Kyun Ki,Won Sup Oh,Ji Yoeun Suh,Kyong Ran Peck,Nam Yong Lee,Yonghong Yang,Quan Lu,Anan Chongthaleong,Cheng-Hsun Chiu,M. K. Lalitha,Jennifer Perera,Ti Teow Yee,Gamini Kumarasinghe,Farida Jamal,Adeeba Kamarulzaman,Parasakthi N,Pham Hung Van,Celia C. Carlos,Thomas Man-kit So,Tak Keung Ng,Atef M. Shibl +26 more
TL;DR: Multilocus sequence typing showed that the spread of the Taiwan19F clone and the Spain23F clone could be one of the major reasons for the rapid increases in antimicrobial resistance among S. pneumoniae isolates in Asia.
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Changing Trends in Antimicrobial Resistance and Serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates in Asian Countries: an Asian Network for Surveillance of Resistant Pathogens (ANSORP) Study
So Hyun Kim,Jae-Hoon Song,Doo Ryeon Chung,Visanu Thamlikitkul,Yonghong Yang,Hui Wang,Min Lu,Thomas Man-kit So,Po-Ren Hsueh,Rohani Md Yasin,Celia C. Carlos,Hung Van Pham,M. K. Lalitha,Nobuyuki Shimono,Jennifer Perera,Atef M. Shibl,Jin Yang Baek,Cheol-In Kang,Kwan Soo Ko,Kyong Ran Peck +19 more
TL;DR: The most remarkable findings about the epidemiology of S. pneumoniae in Asian countries after the introduction of PCV7 were the high prevalence of macrolide resistance and MDR and distinctive increases in serotype 19A.