klebsiella granulomatis

Klebsiella granulomatis is an unflagellated, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family. It lives facultatively anaerobically in the cytoplasm of large, mononuclear cells and is the causative agent of the venereal disease donovanosis. The bacterium does not form spores and therefore depends on direct human-to-human transmission, usually through sexual intercourse, for longer-term survival. What is … Klebsiella Granulomatis: Infection, Transmission & Diseases