Klebsiella Pneumoniae Infections: A Future Threat to Global Health? |Biomedgrid

Klebsiella pneumoniae infections constitute a great concern, especially in developing countries. Multidrug-resistant strains that possess a formidable ability to exchange DNA and high genomic diversity are particularly challenging to clinical practitioners and researchers to face and overcome. In this study, we discuss relevant aspects of aetiology and initiatives to control the dissemination of this pathogen. Given the burden of nosocomial and community-acquired K. pneumoniae infections as well as the capacity to mune other bacteria with resistant cassettes such as carbapenem, it seems adequate to affirm that it is a present threat to global health, since K. pneumoniae is no longer an emergent pathogen.