Announcing a recent article publication for Zoonoses journal. Members of the genus, Klebsiella, have gotten increasingly difficult to regulate on account of the recent convergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and hypervirulent (hv) phenotypes in some species of concern to One Health.

This text provides an introduction to this bacterial genus within the hospital and other settings, update Klebsiella taxonomy, and comment on recent findings describing the prevalence of Klebsiella species within the food chain, a hitherto infrequently recognized ecologic area of interest. The paper also considers this bacterium within the context of the One Health paradigm and its importance to food safety and security.

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Journal reference:

Wall, K., et al. (2023) Klebsiella, a Hitherto Underappreciated Zoonotic Pathogen of Importance to One Health: A Short Review. Zoonoses. doi.org/10.15212/ZOONOSES-2023-0016.