A team of researchers led by Karina Xavier has uncovered a promising new live biotherapeutic agent that may redefine how the ...

A hospital in Seattle has confirmed two more deaths in connection to a bacterial outbreak that began last year. Beginning in October 2022, hospital staff at Virginia Mason Medical Center said it ...

Two more patients have died at a Seattle hospital after contracting a strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria, according to USA Today. The source of the bacteria’s transmission is unknown and still ...

SEATTLE — Virginia Mason Franciscan Health is investigating a bacterial outbreak after 31 patients at its First Hill campus were infected. The Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria was first detected at the ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing—and quietly advancing—challenges facing modern medicine. Among the most ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — More than a decade ago, physicians around the world began reporting cases due to a new hypervirulent strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, which could infect and severely sicken otherwise ...

Four patients at a downtown Seattle hospital are dead in connection to an outbreak of a bacteria often found in health care settings that has developed resistance to some antibiotics. The infected ...

New 'hypervirulent' strains of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae have emerged in healthy people in community settings, prompting a research group to investigate how the human immune system defends ...

The unreasonable use of antibiotics has pushed bacteria to develop resistance mechanisms to this type of treatment. This phenomenon, known as antibiotic resistance, is now considered by the WHO as one ...

More than a decade ago, physicians around the world began reporting cases due to a new hypervirulent strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, which could infect and severely sicken otherwise healthy people.