Klebsiella

Sprenger said that across the region, rates of resistance to last-line antibiotics by a bacteria called Klebsiella pneumoniae had more than doubled to 15 percent by 2010 from around 7 percent five years ago.

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David Livermore, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring & Reference Laboratory at the Health Protection Agency, holds a plate which was coated with the antibiotic-resistant bacteria called Klebsiella with a mutation called NDM 1 and then exposed to various antibiotics, in his laboratory in north London.

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Published in today's online edition of the Journal of Pediatrics, the study pointed to an organism called Klebsiella, a normally occurring bacterium that can be found in the mouth, skin and intestines.

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Walsh discovered the NDM 1 gene after investigating the case of a patient in Sweden who was admitted to hospital in India infected with Klebsiella pneumoniae and E. coli bacteria.

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Other opportunistic pathogenic microorganisms isolated from the beverages included species of Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, Stenotrophomonas, Candida, and Serratia.

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Klebsiella and similarly classified bacteria, including Acinetobacter, Enterobacter, and Pseudomonas, have an extra cellular envelope that MRSA lacks, and that hampers the entry of large molecules like antibiotic drugs.

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Unlike resistant forms of Klebsiella and other gram-negative bacteria, however, MRSA can be treated.

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“The Klebsiella that caused particular trouble in New York are spreading out,” Moellering told me.

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Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae (ATCC 10031).

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In a 2007 test, Hunterdon found that 51% of cultures of Klebsiella pneumoniae, which causes pneumonia, urinary tract and wound infections, were susceptible to ciprofloxacin, up from 27% a year earlier.

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