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The article reports on a study which discusses the resistance to the chlorhexidine and antibiotic colistin. Topics include the use of chlorhexidine as a handwash and disinfectant in health-care settings, understanding the adaptation to chlorhexidine, and importance of the implications of the study for the treatment of multidrug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infections and outbreaks.

The article discusses research being done on the increasing incidence of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, which references a study by W. Li and colleagues published in a 2013 issue of "Clinical Infectious Diseases."

The article presents the report by researchers which showed that two distinct clones of New Delhi Metalloβ-Lactamase-1-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae were discovered at a tertiary care center in Toronto, Ontario.

The article discusses a research study into the origin of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae outbreak, conducted by E. S. Snitkin and colleagues and published in a 2012 issue of "Science Translational Medicine" journal.

The article reports on the findings of a study which indicated that selective digestive decontamination protocol may reduce the prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia infections.

The article reports that BlaKPC gene has for the first time been identified in microorganisms taken from patients at a hospital in St. Louis. The gene allows bacteria to resist an important class of antibiotics and was until now found only on the East Coast. Researchers used Enterobacteriaceae bacteremia isolates from Gram-negative bacteria that were obtained between August 1 and October 31, 2006. The gene was originally identified during an East Coast outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae.