Klebsiella pneumoniae

In the article “Investigation of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection in Moroccan patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases”. The author goes on to talk about the effect of chlamydia pneumoniae has on patients with cardio vascular disease. According to the article cardiovascular disease is one of the highest leading causes of deaths in less-developed countries. Genetic and environmental factors can cause cardiovascular disease ending with athlerscorisis which is buildup of plaque in the arties.…

After receiving unknown organism #14, many tests were performed to discover the identity. After running a variety of tests, my results led me to believe that my unknown organism was Klebsiella pneumoniae. K. pneumonia produced a negative-rod gram stain. My organism, K. pneumoniae, tested positive for the three main carbohydrates, glucose, lactose, and sucrose. After running tests on these carbohydrates, a pH indicator color change from red to yellow signified a positive result, while remaining…

handling a patient with Klebsiella Pneumonia infection and then coming into contact with another patient whilst having the bacterium on them. Although the bacterium enters through the respiratory tract, Klebsiella Pneumonia does not transmit through air. The opportunistic pathogen is more likely to affect elderly individuals with weakened immune systems such as those with autoimmune disease or like our case study, a 60 year old patient having severe chronic alcoholism. Klebsiella Pneumonia has…

Biochemical Unknown I. Introduction Cultural Characteristics or morphology and biochemical tests can be used to identify and classify microorganism. By culturing microorganism in nutrient broth, slants, and on nutrient agar plates, the cultural characteristics or morphology can be determined. In this lab, the test tube 2 was incubated in a nutrient broth. The pigmentation of the tube was yellow. The media for test tube 2 was turbid. There were a few sediment on the bottom of the broth. In…

Coli), Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterobacter species, Yersinia species and many other species.C Enterobacteriaceae can develop resistance to the antibiotic class of carbapenems and are classified as carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). CRE can develop resistance to carbapenems by producing an enzyme called carbapenemase and the most common mechanisms in the United States includes Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC), New Delhi metallo-β-lactamases…

S. aureus was first isolated by Alexander Ogston. Ogston described the bacteria, which he isolated from pus collected from surgical wounds, as micrococci (Thomer et al., 2015). This description was given because of the sphere-shape of the bacteria and the grape-like clusters that they form. After Ogston’s discovery, Friedrich Rosenbach differentiated between two staphylococci bacteria, which were isolated from humans (Thomer et al., 2015). These bacteria were named S. aureus and S. albus. This…

we came to the conclusion that our unknown organism is Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae). K. pneumoniae is a gram negative bacillus shaped microorganism. We observed that K. pneumoniae is a nonmotile organism. We performed multiple tests on our unknown culture, therefore we are very confident that it is correctly identified. We identified that K. pneumoniae is a facultative anaerobe. When inoculated onto an agar slant, K. pneumoniae took the shape of echinulate. When inoculated onto a…

diffusion method. Pandiarajan et al. (2011) has investigated the antibacterial activity of cocoon shell extract and proved that the cocoon shell extract inhibited the growth of micro organisms such as E.coli, B. cereus, P. aeruginosa, S. aureus and K. pneumoniae. Jassim and Al-Saree (2010) isolated and identified some pathogenic bacteria like S.aureus, P.aeruginosa, E.coli and tested the antimicrobial activity of sericin against these pathogens and concluded that the protein sericin has good…

Introduction / Purpose: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most common nosocomial infection in the intensive care unit (ICU). It caused prolonged hospital stay and increased mortality. In this study, we aimed to investigate the rate of VAP, causative microorganisms and their antibiotic susceptibilities. Materials and Method: This retrospective study included patients that admitted in 12-bed ICU between January 2013 and December 2014. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criterias…

Three agar slants and three nutrient broths were inoculated with Staphylococcus epidermidis using aseptic techniques for transferring samples from broth, agar, and plate cultures. A sterile inoculating loop was used to transfer a loopful of culture from the culture to the sterile media. The lip of the culture tube and inoculated media tube was flamed before and after transfer. The inoculating loop was reserialized after transfer was complete. An agar deep transfer of S. epidermidis was also done…