History
The Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938), developed the technique now known as Gram staining in 1884 to discriminate between K. pneumoniae and Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Klebsiella was named after the German bacteriologist Edwin Klebs (1834–1913).
Multiple-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae have been killed in vivo via intraperitoneal, intravenous or intranasal administration of phages in laboratory tests. While this treatment has been available for some time, a greater danger of bacterial resistance exists to phages than to antibiotics. Resistance to phage may cause a bloom in the number of the microbe in environment as well as among humans (if not obligate pathogenic). This is why phage therapy is only used in conjunction with antibiotics, to supplement their activity instead of replacing it altogether.
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