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Capsular polysaccharides (KL) and lipooligosaccharides (OCL) were tested using Kleborate with the <jats:italic>Kaptive<\/jats:italic>. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and replicon types were identified using the Center for Genomic Epidemiology website. Prophage region analysis was performed using PHASTEST software. Conjugation-related elements were predicted using <jats:italic>oriT<\/jats:italic>finder. The plasmid structure was visualized using Circos and similar plasmids in the public database were tracked using BacWGSTdb. A global phylogeny for the ST852 <jats:italic>K. quasipneumoniae<\/jats:italic> isolates was further performed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>K. quasipneumoniae<\/jats:italic> KPSY isolate was identified as ST852, with KL18 and O3\/O3a. It has an extensive drug-resistant (XDR) profile. WGS analysis revealed that it contained one circular chromosome and three plasmids. The results of the COG and KEGG functional classifications showed that most of the functions were associated with metabolism. pKPSY-2 is a 239,226-bp IncU plasmid carrying the carbapenem resistance gene <jats:italic>bla<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>NDM-1<\/jats:sub>. pKPSY-3 is a smaller plasmid belonging to the IncN-type conjugative plasmid with <jats:italic>bla<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>KPC-2<\/jats:sub>. Importantly, <jats:italic>oriT<\/jats:italic> sequence, the T4SS region, T4CP, and relaxase were identified. Tracking of the <jats:italic>bla<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>KPC-2<\/jats:sub> plasmids showed they were identified in different species in different countries, including <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Leclercia<\/jats:italic> sp., <jats:italic>Pantoea<\/jats:italic> sp., and <jats:italic>E. hormaechei<\/jats:italic>. Global analysis data showed 13 ST852 strains were mainly isolated from China (84.62%, 11\/13), and the remaining isolates were collected from Switzerland.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>This is the first study to identify an ST852 NDM-1-KPC-2 coproducing <jats:italic>K. quasipneumoniae<\/jats:italic> clinical isolate. 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