SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

‘Hypervirulent’ Klebsiella Emerging in U.S. Communities

By IDSE News Staff

New hypervirulent strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) have emerged in healthy people, prompting a National Institutes of Health research group to investigate how the human immune system defends against infection (mBio 2023 Sep 6. doi:10.1128/mbio.01949-23).