Cells of strain LX3(T), isolated from soil, were Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, non-motile, capsulated and non-endospore-forming straight rods, able to grow at 10 degrees C, unable to produce gas from lactose at 45 degrees C and unable to produce indole. The isolate converted sucrose to isomaltulose and did not produce detectable glucose by-products. The G+C content of the DNA was 56.4...

background brain abscess is an infrequent complication of meningitis, including cases caused by gram-negative enteric bacteria and klebsiella in neonates. brain abscess in neonates associated with high morbidity and mortality.recently, incidence of the disease is increasing because of increased predisposing factors. patients and method three cases of brain abscess in neonates are reported, 2 of...

background: klebseilla pneumoniae causes urinary tract infections, nosocomial pneumonia and intra-abdominal infections. capsular antigens are considered to be the ultimate virulence determinants. among 77 capsular serotypes of k. pneumoniae, serotypes k1 and k2 are the most virulent ones in humans. objectives: we designed a pcr method for detection of capsular serotypes k1 and k2 of k. pneumoni...

background: the increasing pattern of multi-drug resistant (mdr) bacteria has limited therapeutic options especially for nosocomial isolates of klebsiella pneumoniae. therefore, the aim of this study was the molecular detection of 16s rrna methylase and blactx-m-15 among k. pneumoniae strains isolated from hospitalized patients in mofid, imam hossein and taleghani hospitals. materials and metho...

b ackground: in recent decades, extended spectrum beta-lactamase (esbl) producing bacteria have increased worldwide. the most important causative agents of nosocomial infections throughout the world, escherichia coli and klebsiella pneumoniae as main esbl-producing bacteria are so highly regarded. trends  in  the  treatment  of  infections  by such  bacteria  have  led  to  a  global concern. t...

Different Klebsiella species may vary with the type of infections they cause in both the community and hospital environments. However, in many laboratories in developing countries, differentiation of the genus Klebsiella into species is not generally done during bacteriological diagnosis due to high cost and special skills involved. This study aimed at determining the prevalence of different Kl...

A retrospective study of all Klebsiella isolations from patients admitted to hospital with acute respiratory tract infections over a 27-month period was carried out. Ten of the Klebsiella isolations from sputum and one from a blood culture were identified as Klebsiella oxytoca. The clinical and radiological features of six patients are described. Four of these patients had lobar pneumonia, one ...

The aim of the study was to analyze the antimicrobial susceptibility of Austrian clinical Klebsiella sp. and Enterobacter sp. isolates linked to patient-related data over a time period from 1998 to 2014. The main findings of this study were (i) a marked difference of antibiotic susceptibility rates between different infection sites for both Klebsiella sp. and Enterobacter sp., (ii) significantl...