Relationships between phagocytosis, mucoid phenotype, and genetic characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates.

Francinete Carla Nunes CavalcantiJuliana Falcão RodriguesAdriane Borges CabralLarissa Caina Barbosa de AzariasMarcos Antônio de Morais JúniorCélia Maria Machado Barbosa de CastroAna Catarina de Souza Lopes

Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2019)

Several virulence factors act in parallel in K. pneumoniae to impair host defense.

Keyphrases

klebsiella pneumoniae
escherichia coli
multidrug resistant
pseudomonas aeruginosa
biofilm formation
staphylococcus aureus
genome wide
antimicrobial resistance
copy number
respiratory tract
innate immune
cystic fibrosis
gene expression