Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae: The next superbug?

Future Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 669-671

  Shon, Alyssa S ^a,b   Russo, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

antimicrobial resistance; community acquired pyogenic liver abscess; hypermucoviscous; hypervirulent; iron acquisition; Klebsiella pneumoniae; siderophores

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ASIAN; AUSTRALIA; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CANADA; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERVIRULENT KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; HYPERVIRULENT KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; INTESTINE; ISRAEL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LIVER ABSCESS; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SOUTH AFRICA; SURGICAL INFECTION; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84862578493     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.12.43     Document Type: Editorial

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