Swathy Krishna

Rising global threat of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae: Insights into virulence factors, pathogenicity, and molecular mechanisms.

Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, a novel variant with unique phenotypic and genotypic features that enhance pathogenicity and epidemic potentiality, has become a serious worldwide public health emergency. Even healthy people can contract invasive infections from hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (hvKp), which shows highe...