Clonal dissemination of highly virulent <i>Serratia marcescens</i> strains producing KPC-2 in food-producing animals.

"the whole-genome sequence was deposited in genbank database under the accession number jaowim000000000 bioproject prjna888994."

"Declaration of Competing Interest A.C.G. has recently received research funding and/or consultation fees from bioMérieux, Eurofarma, MSD, Pfizer, Roche, Sandoz, and United Medical. Other authors have nothing to declare. This study was not financially supported by any Diagnostic/Pharmaceutical company."

"Funding This study was supported by the National Council for Science and Technological Development (CNPq) and the 10.13039/100000865Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (process numbers 402659/2018-0, 443805/2018-0, and OPP1193112). Under the grant conditions of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License has already been assigned to the Author Accepted Manuscript version that might arise from this submission. We are grateful to the 10.13039/501100002322Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for providing grants to TBV, RGBS, FFS (PNPD) and to the 10.13039/501100003593CNPq for providing grants to FOB-N, RFB-N., RV, and ACG (Process number: 312066/2019-8)."