Klebsiella pneumoniae — China
Infectious disease experts are calling the emergence of hypervirulent, multidrug-resistant and highly transmissible strains of _Klebsiella pneumoniae_ described in a recent paper by Chinese scientists an alarming and worrisome development that could be a sign of things to come.
The paper, published last week in the Lancet Infectious Diseases [1,2], described a ventilator-associated pneumonia outbreak among 5 patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) at a hospital in Hangzhou, China. The 5
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