Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nonmotile, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Klebsiella, such as K. pneumoniae, that causes pneumonia and other infections usually in patients with diminished immunity, such as diabetics and alcoholics.
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- noun a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I also had a "klebsiella pneumonia" wound infection, gone untested, and untreated.
In Defense of the Hysterectomy aka TBTAM 2007
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(The doctor who removed my sex organs, sent me a certified letter dismissing me as a patient and had me view graphic vaginal photos on a web site called, ourgyn, and told me I had Vulvodynia, and that the "klebsiella pneumonia", wound infection, was caused by sexual partners, or my partners, partners)
In Defense of the Hysterectomy aka TBTAM 2007
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They have hard-to-pronounce names, such as acenobacter, klebsiella, pseudomonas, but there are two things to sort of keep in mind about these bacteria, one is that they are increasing, certainly in numbers, especially in hospitals and as things stand now, they're nearly impossible to treat.
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Five months ago, five babies died in the same ward, while two more were infected with the klebsiella bacteria.
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"At this stage the babies are only suspected of having died of klebsiella."
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"The signs of our health system heading for a disaster are there for all of us to see, whether it is scores of babies dying of drinking contaminated water or babies dying of klebsiella ..."
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In the provincial legislature on Tuesday, the department's chief operations officer Nhlanhla Nkosi said there was "inconclusive evidence" to suggest that the deaths were linked to klebsiella.
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"The doctors on duty followed the normal procedure in suggesting klebsiella might be the cause of death," Mbangwa said.
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Health MEC Peggy Nkonyeni said klebsiella outbreaks were a
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The KwaZulu-Natal health department has denied that there is an outbreak of klebsiella at Durban's Prince Mshiyeni Hospital, the
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