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The aim of this study was to improve and extend the typeability, availability, cost and time efficiency of an existing multi-locus VNTR analysis (MLVA). A modified scheme (MLVA8+) was adopted and validated for strain-level differentiation of the three Klebsiella species involved in human pathology. A diverse set of 465 K. pneumoniae clinical isolates from 22 hospitals and 3 outpatient laboratories in Bulgaria were studied, where 315 were carbapenem-resistant. The MLVA8+ typeability was significantly improved and the typing data were validated against 158 isolates which were previously typed by WGS. The MLVA8+ results were highly concordant with the classic 7-locus MLST and the novel K. variicola MLST, but had greater congruency coefficients (adjusted Wallace). A major advantage was the differentiation of the hybrid cluster ST258 into its corresponding clades. 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