Professor Chen Sheng (IMAGE)

City University of Hong Kong

Professor Chen Sheng

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Professor Chen Sheng worries that the newly discovered conjugative plasmid could covert a normal Klebsiella pneumoniae strain into a hyper-virulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in a rapid way, posing a bigger threat to patients' health.

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City University of Hong Kong

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