Hospitals''pneumoniae Isolated in Brazilian Type Complex in KPC-2-Producing Frequently Found Multilocus Sequence Reply to ''Clonal Complex 258, the Most

clones(2,3, 7) from six Brazilian states and from the city of Brasilia in theFederalDistrictofBrazilandfurtherdocumentthepredominanceofST437,followedbyST11,andthedescriptionofanewsequencetype,ST617.WhilesomeCC258clones,suchasST258orST11,areglob-allyspread,others,suchasST437,havebeendocumentedtooccurinonlyafewlocations.Itwouldbeofinteresttoanalyzethecontinentalspreadofsuchclonesduringnonoutbreaksituationsandtoevaluatewhether such clonal expansion is independent of the emergence of