See Also: klebsiella(encyclopedia)
klebsiella(dictionary)
klebsiella(medicine)
klebsiella pneumonia(medicine)
klebsiella infections(medicine)
Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis(medicine)
Klebsiella pneumoniae(medicine)
Klebsiella ozaenae(medicine)
Klebsiella mobilis(medicine)
Klebsiella pneumoniae ozaenae(medicine)

klebsiella (sh)




Any of the rod-shaped bacteria that make up the genus Klebsiella.

They are gram-negative (see gram stain), thrive better without oxygen than with it, and do not move. K. pneumoniae, also called Friedl?nder's bacillus, can infect the human respiratory tract and cause pneumonia and, as well as some other species, human urinary-tract and wound infections.