The findings were published in npj Biofilms and Microbes. Klebsiella pneumoniae is an opportunistic bacterium that infects patients in hospitals, causing conditions such as pneumonia, urinary ...

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers investigated whether a cocktail of bacteriophages coding for the depolymerase polysaccharide could effectively disrupt Klebsiella ...

A review in Biomolecules and Biomedicine sheds light on how microRNAs (miRNAs)—small regulatory RNA molecules—play a central ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a method to dismantle protective biofilms produced by Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterium known for causing infections like ...

Most of the disease-causing bacteria secrete matrix-like layers around themselves called biofilms ... infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis while sparing healthy microbes ...

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.