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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.