When colonies were touched with a loop and the loop lifted vertically from the surface of the agar plate, mucoid isolates adhered to the loop as it was lifted from the plate. (Figure first presented at the 36th annual conference of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Denver, Colorado, USA, 1998.)
Reproduced from: Yu, VL, Hansen, DS, Chien Ko, W, et al. Virulence characteristics of Klebsiella and clinical manifestations of K. pnemoniae bloodstream infections. Emerg Infect Dis 2007; 13:986. Available online at
http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/13/7/986.htm (Accessed on August 29, 2007).
