Novel, Broadly Reactive Anticapsular Antibodies against Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Protect from Infection

Carbapenem-resistant (CR) sequence type 258 (ST258) Klebsiella pneumoniae has become an urgent health care threat, causing an increasing number of high-mortality infections. Its resistance to numerous antibiotics and threat to immunocompromised patients necessitate finding new therapies to combat th...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth Diago-Navarro, Michael P. Motley, Gonzalo Ruiz-Peréz, Winnie Yu, Julianne Austin, Bruna M. S. Seco, Guozhi Xiao, Aniska Chikhalya, Peter H. Seeberger, Bettina C. Fries, Robert A. Bonomo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-04-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/9/2/e00091-18