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Microbiol."],"abstract":"<jats:p>Aminoglycosides are important options for treating life-threatening infections. However, high levels of aminoglycoside resistance (HLAR) among <jats:italic>Klebsiella pneumoniae<\/jats:italic> isolates have been observed to be increasing frequently. In this study, a total of 292 isolates of the <jats:italic>K. pneumoniae<\/jats:italic> complex from a teaching hospital in China were analyzed. Among these isolates, the percentage of HLAR strains was 13.7% (40\/292), and 15 aminoglycoside resistance genes were identified among the HLAR strains, with <jats:italic>rmtB<\/jats:italic> being the most dominant resistance gene (70%, 28\/40). We also described an <jats:italic>armA<\/jats:italic>-carrying <jats:italic>Klebsiella variicola<\/jats:italic> strain KP2757 that exhibited a high-level resistance to all aminoglycosides tested. Whole-genome sequencing of KP2757 demonstrated that the strain contained one chromosome and three plasmids, with all the aminoglycoside resistance genes (including two copies of <jats:italic>armA<\/jats:italic> and six AME genes) being located on a conjugative plasmid, p2757-346, belonging to type IncHI5. Comparative genomic analysis of eight IncHI5 plasmids showed that six of them carried two copies of the intact <jats:italic>armA<\/jats:italic> gene in the complete or truncated Tn<jats:italic>1548<\/jats:italic> transposon. To the best of our knowledge, for the first time, we observed that two copies of <jats:italic>armA<\/jats:italic> together with six AME genes coexisted on the same plasmid in a strain of <jats:italic>K. variicola<\/jats:italic> with HLAR. Comparative genomic analysis of eight <jats:italic>armA<\/jats:italic>-carrying IncHI5 plasmids isolated from humans and sediment was performed, suggesting the potential for dissemination of these plasmids among bacteria from different sources. 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