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Hypervirulent klebseilla pneumoniae (hvKp) is a new threat

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Infection and immunity.

Abstract

Hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (hvKp) is a pathogenic strain of K. pneumoniae that is more virulent than classical K. pneumoniae (cKp). hvKp typically infects people in the community who are otherwise healthy. Infections are more common in the Asian Pacific Rim, but they occur worldwide. hvKp infection frequently manifests at various places or metastatically spreads, necessitating source control. hvKp has a greater proclivity to produce central nervous system infection and endophthalmitis, both of which necessitate prompt diagnosis and site-specific treatment.

K. pneumoniae has become a growing global problem in recent decades, owing to its increased resistance and lately concentrated hypervirulence. Despite the fact that SH 1V-1 -lactamase is encoded on the chromosome and is inherent resistance, K. pneumoniae can counteract antimicrobials by a variety of mechanisms, including hydrolyzing enzymes, missing porins, efflux overexpression, topoisomerase, and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) modification (4). Carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae (CR-KP) has reached an alarming rate of more than 30.0% among K. pneumoniae strains, posing serious hurdles in clinical practice. The World Health Organization (WHO) published a list of the most "critical" bacteria with an urgent need for novel therapies in 2016, with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) being designated as a critical priority organism

DOI

10.21608/smj.2023.227205.1405

Keywords

Hypervirulent K. pneumoniae, Nosocomial Infections, Antibiotic resistance

Authors

First Name

dina

Last Name

mohamed

MiddleName

hamada

Affiliation

medical microbiology and immunology

Email

dinahamada87@yahoo.com

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First Name

Mona

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

fattouh

Affiliation

Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University

Email

monarahman2002@yahoo.co.uk

City

sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Nessma

Last Name

hassan

MiddleName

atef

Affiliation

Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt

Email

nessma.morsi@yahoo.com

City

sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Ashgan

Last Name

Badawy

MiddleName

Hussein

Affiliation

medical microbiology and immunology

Email

beautifulboshi@gmail.com

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sohag

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-

Volume

27

Article Issue

3.

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41629

Issue Date

2023-09-01

Receive Date

2023-09-06

Publish Date

2023-09-01

Page Start

21

Page End

26

Print ISSN

1687-8353

Online ISSN

2682-4159

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319,456

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2,807

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Sohag Medical Journal

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Hypervirulent klebseilla pneumoniae (hvKp) is a new threat

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24 Dec 2024