Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences Karnataka

The genus has four species with Klebsiella pneumoniae being the type species. The other species are Klebsiella oxytoca, Klebsiella planticola, Klebsiella terrigena and Klebsiella trevisanii. Orskov (1984) reported that the greatest problem in identification is to distinguish Klebsiella pneumoniae strains from nonmotile Enterobacter aerogenes ... ................
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