Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) constitute the most frequent adverse events in the context of health service delivery. These infections, when caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens, may ...

Val Kilmer died of pneumonia, Fox News Digital has learned. The Los Angeles County Department of Health released the actor's death certificate Thursday. Secondary causes included acute hypoxemic ...

Recent paper: Liu C, Zhou Y, Wang L, Han L, Lei J, Ishaq HM, Nair SP, Xu J. (2016) Photodynamic inactivation of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms and planktonic cells by 5-aminolevulinic acid and ...

To break down this biofilm barrier, the team has used an enzyme from the cow’s digestive tract. Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) is an opportunistic bacterium that infects patients in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reference: “Polyproline peptide targets Klebsiella pneumoniae polysaccharides to collapse biofilms” by Laura De los Santos, Robert L. Beckman, Christina DeBarro, James E. Keener, Marcelo D.T. Torres, ...

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 ...

BACKGROUND: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate the effectiveness of specific concentrations of antibiofilm agents, such as N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), rifampicin, and ozone ...