Background: Hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (hvKP). A virulent pathogen that has the ability to infect individuals in various age, multiple ports of entry and cause infectious syndromes. Therefore urges an increase awareness perspective on characteristics clinical feature hvKP, better understanding providing appropriate treatment cases infection caused by hvKP. Main Text: (hvKP) was first reported ...

Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (HvKP) is hypermucoviscous organism, carrying genes of rmpA and aerobactin, causing serious community-acquired infection and metastatically spread in young healthy hosts. Neutrophils play an important role during innate immune response against bacterial infection by phagocytosis and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). Whether neutrophils can effectively de...

Fifty-five isolates of Escherichia coli from septicaemic neonatal foals were used to validate five real-time pcr assays targeting different known virulence factor genes: curli fibre (csgD), ferric hydroxamate uptake (fhuA), type 1A pilin (fimA), aerobactin (lutA) and yersiniabactin (fyuA). A pcr assay targeting a universal sequence of the bacterial 16S rrna gene served as quality control. The p...

During the course of our investigation on the iron acquisition systems in Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a causative agent of seafood-related gastroenteritis, we found that this species utilizes desferri-ferrichrome for growth as a heterologous siderophore (a siderophore produced by other bacteria and fungi) under iron-limiting conditions. N-Terminal amino acid sequence analysis of the iron-repressib...