Klebsiella: A long way to go towards understanding this enigmatic jet-setter

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Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Broberg, Christopher A ^a   Palacios, Michelle ^a   Miller, Virginia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENDOGENOUS ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

KLEBSIELLA;

EID: 84906999646     PISSN: 20517599     EISSN: 20517599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12703/P6-64     Document Type: Article

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