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Biotyping and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Klebsiella species

Jamal F 1 , Aziz AH 2 , Shafie MS 3

Affiliations 

  • 1 Farida Jamal, MBBS, MSc, MRCPath. Associate Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology Faculty of Medicine, UKM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Abdul Hamid Aziz, Drs (ITB), MPhil. Lecturer, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, UKM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 3 Misinggi Salaton Hj Shafie. Medical Laboratory Technologist, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, UKM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Med J Malaysia, 1982 Jun;37(2):128-31.
PMID: 7132831

Abstract

Two hundred strains of Klebsiella species isolated from clinical specimens over a four-month period were biotyped as Klebsiella aerogenes (173 strains), Klebsiella ozaenae (15 strains), Klebsiella edwardsii (5 strains), Klebsiella atlantae (2 strains) and Klebsiella oxytoca (1 strain). Klebsiella aerogenes and Klebsiella ozaenae were more resistant towards antibiotics when compared with other species. Colonial morphology on eosin methylene blue agar (Oxoid) was not found useful for differentiations of Klebsiella biotypes.

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