aerogenes result from specific antibiotic treatments, venous catheter insertions, and/or surgical procedures. Infections are generally sensitive to antibiotics designed for this bacteria class, though complicated by inducible resistance mechanisms, particularly lactamase infections accordingly become quickly resistant to standard antibiotics during treatment, necessitating a change in antibiotic to avoid worsening of the sepsis. Klebsiella aerogenes is a nosocomial, pathogenic bacterium that causes opportunistic infections of most types. Capable of motility via peritrichous flagella, the bacterium is approximately 1–3 microns in length.
Klebsiella aerogenes, previously known as Enterobacter aerogenes, is a Gram-negative, oxidase-negative, catalase-positive, citrate-positive, indole-negative, rod-shaped bacterium. Bacterium aerogenes Breed and Conn, 1935.Enterobacter aerogenes Hormaeche and Edwards, 1960.
