The prevalence of rectal carriage of Klebsiella pneumoniae amongst diabetic patients and their clinical relevance in Taiwan: A five-year prospective study

Although nearly half of asymptomatic DM patients had rectal carriage of K. pneumoniae and one-third of them colonized by isolates belonging to the seven serotypes related to PLA, none of them subsequently developed PLA and colonized patients did not have higher risk of microbiologically confirmed bacterial infections.