Nester's Microbiology: A Human Perspective
Nester's Microbiology: A Human Perspective
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781259709999
Author: Denise G. Anderson Lecturer, Sarah Salm, Deborah Allen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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A mechanism by which Klebsiellapneumoniae become antibiotic resistant.

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Klebsiellapneumoniae can cause many diseases, one of them is pneumonia. It is responsible for diseases of the lower respiratory tract. The Klebsiella-infected diseases are mostly hospitalborne. These bacteria can show multidrug resistance. They contain a plasmid-encodedbeta-lactamase that is responsible for the inactivation of the beta-lactam groups of antibiotics (majorly the penicillins).

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