Klebsiella pneumoniae exhibiting a phenotypic hyper-splitting phenomenon including the formation of small colony variants

Klebsiella pneumoniae exhibiting a phenotypic hyper-splitting phenomenon including the formation of small colony variants

In this study, we characterized a Klebsiella pneumoniae strain in a patient with shrapnel hip injury, which resulted in multiple phenotypic changes, including the formation of a small colony variant (SCV) phenotype. Although already described since the 1960s, there is little knowledge about SCV phen...

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Main Authors: Eyüp Doğan, Katharina Sydow, Stefan E. Heiden, Elias Eger, Georgi Wassilew, Richard A. Proctor, Jürgen A. Bohnert, Evgeny A. Idelevich, Katharina Schaufler, Karsten Becker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Subjects:
Klebsiella pneumoniae
hyper-splitting
small colony variant
hypervirulence
multidrug resistance
in-host evolution
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2024.1372704/full

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