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Using whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data, 59 isolates (92.2%) were identified as K. pneumoniae and five (7.8%) as K. quasipneumoniae. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) assigned 53 isolates to 46 distinct sequence types (STs). Eleven isolates could not be assigned to existing STs of the Pasteur classification scheme because they contained novel alleles not previously documented. Thus, these were considered novel and designated as ST7681-ST7689 and ST7697-ST7698. Almost all isolates in this study were assigned unique STs, and only five STs were shared among multiple isolates. 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