Klebsiella pneumoniae disassembles host microtubules in lung epithelial cells.

Klebsiella pneumoniae raises significant concerns to the health care industry as these microbes are the source of widespread contamination of medical equipment, cause pneumonia as well as other multiorgan metastatic infections and have gained multidrug resistance. Despite soaring mortality rates, the host cell alterations occurring during these infections remain poorly understood. Here, we show that during in vitro and in vivo K.