Affiliation:
1. Department of Medical Microbiology and Virology1 and
2. Department of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine,2 University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Abstract
ABSTRACT
To investigate the occurrence of different
Klebsiella
spp. in aquatic environments, a total of 208 samples of natural surface waters was examined. From half (53%) of these samples, 123
Klebsiella
strains were isolated, the most common species being
Klebsiella pneumoniae
. A comparison of these isolates to a group of 207 clinical
K. pneumoniae
isolates demonstrated that water isolates of
K. pneumoniae
, unlike those of
K. oxytoca
and
K. planticola
, are as capable as clinical isolates of expressing putative virulence factors such as serum resistance and capsular polysaccharides, pili, and siderophores.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
Cited by
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