Convergence of carbapenem resistance and hypervirulence leads to high mortality in patients with postoperative Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis

Abstract

Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis is associated with high mortality. Klebsiella pneumoniae-induced meningitis has highly divergent origins. Convergence of carbapenem resistance and hypervirulence leads to high mortality in patients with K. pneumoniae meningitis, which is of great clinical concern.