Fupin Hu, L. Silvia Munoz-Price, Dennise DePascale, Jesabel I. Rivera, Yohei Doi Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Institute of Antibiotics, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Key Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology of Antibiotics, Ministry of Health, Shanghai, China; Department of Medicine, Miller Scho...

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We compared three unstructured mathematical models, the master reaction, the square root, and the damage/repair models, for describing the relationship between temperature and the specific growth rates of bacteria. The models were evaluated on the basis of several criteria: applicability, ease of use, simple interpretation of model parameters, problem-free determination of model parameters, sta...

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strain 1756 was isolated from a pus specimen from a Taiwanese patient. Here, the complete genome sequence of strain 1756 is presented.

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a leading cause of nosocomial infections in the United States. Due to the emergence of multidrug-resistant strains, phages targeting K. pneumoniae may be a useful alternative against this pathogen. Here, we announce the complete genome of K. pneumoniae pseudo-T-even myophage Matisse and describe its features.

We report the emergence of five carbapenem-resistant K1 hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) strains which caused fatal infections in hospital patients in Zhejiang Province, China, upon entry through surgical wounds. Genotyping results revealed the existence of three genetically related strains which exhibited a new sequence type, ST1797, and revealed that all strains harbored the magA an...

Here, we present the 6,155,188-bp draft genome sequence of Klebsiella pneumoniae UCD-JA29, isolated from blood cultures from a patient with sepsis at the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California, USA.

The bactericidal power of fresh human plasma against Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli was extremely sensitive to changes in Eh and pH. At a high Eh (approx. +200 mV) the bacteria were destroyed, but rapid regrowth occurred when the Eh was lowered to approx. -400 mV. Abolition of the bactericidal effect was also produced by adding ferric iron at a high Eh (approx. +200 mV). Lowering th...

The CLSI reduced the cefepime Enterobacteriaceae susceptibility breakpoint and introduced the susceptible-dose-dependent (S-DD) category. In this study, MICs were determined for a Gram-negative collection to assess the impact of this change. For Enterobacteriaceae, this resulted in <2% reduction in susceptibility, with 1% being S-DD. If applied to Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the % susceptibility (%...