A rapid biochemical test that detects ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae with 100% accuracy should soon be ready for ... to identify ESBL-producing bacteria — mostly Klebsiella pneumoniae ...

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a bacterium that causes different types of infections, including pneumonia, meningitis, and cellulitis. Learn more here.

Klebsiella pneumoniae are normally harmless bacteria that live in your intestines and feces, ... If you’re using a ventilator or catheter, a doctor might test these objects for K. pneumoniae.

“Our goal with this study was to decipher how several genetic factors contribute to this hypervirulence in order to guide the development of preventive therapies, treatments and control strategies for ...

That work may be critical to developing a diagnostic test for hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae. Presently, clinical microbiology laboratories are unable to differentiate classical from ...

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a ‘superbug’ that causes a range of diseases, depending on which part of the body it infects. Doctors typically use antibiotics to treat it.

Now, with numerous publications on the bacterium, Russo has identified the genetic elements responsible for turning classical Klebsiella pneumoniae, which generally infects only sick and/or ...