By Ethan Covey
Human-to-human transmission is responsible for the majority of Klebsiella spread, according to data from a large genomics data set presented at the 32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, in Lisbon, Portugal (poster P0938).
Additionally, the risk for humans becoming ill with Klebsiella species transmitted by non-human sources is low.
The study consisted of over 6,500 samples taken from hospitals, community carriages, farms, companion and wild