Bacterium
klebsiella pneumoniae
Subclass of:
Klebsiella
Definitions related to klebsiella pneumoniae:
  • A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is nonmotile, oxidase negative, and produces acid from glucose, mannitol, rhamnose, arabinose and amygdalin. K. ozaenae is pathogenic and a causative agent of ozena/atrophic rhinitis.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Klebsiella pneumoniae.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Gram negative, non motile, capsulated, gas producing rods found widely in nature and associated with urinary and respiratory infections in humans.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Gram-negative, non-motile, capsulated, gas-producing rods found widely in nature and associated with urinary and respiratory infections in humans.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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