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Klebsiella morphology :

• Short , plump, straight rods
• Non motile
• Capsulated
• Gram negative
• Facultative anaerobic

Culture characteristics :

1. Nutrient agar :
   1. Large dome shaped colony
2. Mckonkey agar :
   1. Lactose fermenting pink colony

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Biochemical reaction :

1. IMVIC : “-,-,+,+”
2. Sugar :
   1. Glucose
   2. Lactose
   3. Sucrose
   4. Mannitol
   5. Acid
   6. Abundant Gas

Pathogenicity :

2nd most popular member aerobic bacterial flora of human intestine

• Infection :
  • Pneumonia
  • UTI
  • Septicemia
  • Pus forming infection
  • Diarrhoea
• Pneumonia due to klebsiella has high rate fatality
• Massive mucoid inflammatory exudate of one or more lobes of lung
• Necrosis, abscess formation
• m/c serotype – 1,2,3
• K.pneumonia – catheter associated UTI

Laboratory Diagnosis:

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