Klebsiella

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Overview

• Found in the soil and environment
• Found in the gut
• Usually opportunistic pathogens

Characteristics

• Lactose fermentors
• Possess large capsules causing colonies to be large and mucoid
• Certain capsule types associated with metritis in mares
• Wide spectrum of antibiotic resistance

Clinical infections

• Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated in most cases of Klebsiella infection
• Coliform mastitis in cows
• Associated with wood products used for bedding for cattle - implicated as cause of mastitis
• Endometritis, cervitis and mastitis in mares, causing infertility and abortion
• Pneumonia in calves and foals
• Urinary tract infections in dogs
• Septicaemia and pneumonia in dogs
• Wound infections
• In osteomyelitis