Futurity September 23, 2024
New research identifies the likely culprit that turns classical Klebsiella pneumoniae into a devastating, drug-resistant killer.
More than a decade ago, physicians around the world began reporting cases due to a new hypervirulent strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, which could infect and severely sicken otherwise healthy people.
Thomas A. Russo at the University at Buffalo and the VA Western New York Healthcare System (VAWNYHS) was one of them. In 2011, he treated his first case in Buffalo, a young person with no other comorbidities who was hospitalized for months with this hypervirulent bacterium.
The patient fully recovered, but Russo became curious about this hypervirulent bacterium—and alarmed, given the fact that it was able to infect otherwise healthy individuals from the community...
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