Cooke E M, Edmondson A S, Starkey W
J Med Microbiol. 1981 Nov;14(4):443-50. doi: 10.1099/00222615-14-4-443.
The ability of Klebsiella aerogenes strains isolated from outbreaks of infection, from sporadic infections and from the environment to survive on hands were compared. Considered as groups, the outbreak strains survived best and the environmental strains least well. The possible importance of these observations in relation to outbreaks of Klebsiella infection in hospitals and to heterogeneity of pathogenic potential and transmissibility in Klebsiella aerogenes is discussed.
对从感染暴发、散发性感染及环境中分离出的产气克雷伯菌菌株在手上存活的能力进行了比较。作为一个整体来看，暴发菌株存活能力最强，环境菌株存活能力最差。讨论了这些观察结果对于医院内产气克雷伯菌感染暴发以及产气克雷伯菌致病潜力和传播性异质性的可能重要性。
