By Marie Rosenthal
ATLANTA—A strain of highly resistant and highly virulent Klebsiella pneumoniae that is difficult to find with standard susceptibility tests has been found in an isolate from New York, according to researchers at ASM Microbe 2018 (abstract 464).
This is the first strain of carbapenem-resistant, hypermucoviscous K. pneumoniae exhibiting colistin heteroresistance and enhanced virulence isolated in the United States, according to researchers from the Emory Antibiotic