Frances Spragge

Mar 30, 2024 | medicalxpress.com | Frances Spragge

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common species of bacteria found in our bodies—and may even be lurking in your gut, mouth or nose right now. But it's also a notoriously harmful bacteria that can make us very ill. It's the most common cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia in the US and the second most frequent cause of urinary tract infections worldwide, after Escherichia coli (E coli). If it infects wounds or enters the bloodstream, K pneumoniae can cause bloodstream infections and sepsis.

Mar 29, 2024 | theconversation.com | Frances Spragge

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common species of bacteria found in our bodies – and may even be lurking in your gut, mouth or nose right now. But it’s also a notoriously harmful bacteria that can make us very ill. It’s the most common cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia in the US and the second most frequent cause of urinary tract infections worldwide, after Escherichia coli (E coli). If it infects wounds or enters the bloodstream, K pneumoniae can cause bloodstream infections and sepsis.

Mar 29, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Frances Spragge

By Frances Spragge, Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiology, University of Oxford Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common species of bacteria found in our bodies – and may even be lurking in your gut, mouth or nose right now. But it’s also a notoriously harmful bacteria that can make us very ill.

Dec 14, 2023 | science.org | Lijia Li |Frances Spragge

In the Research Article “Agriculture and hot temperatures interactively erode the nest success of habitat generalist birds across the United States,” the effect sizes were mistakenly calculated using the extremes of the maximum temperature anomaly distribution. The effect sizes are now correctly calculated using 2 SDs above and below the maximum temperature anomaly mean, as described in the main text and methods. The correction does not change the paper’s conclusions.

Dec 14, 2023 | science.org | Lijia Li |Frances Spragge |Ludovic Orlando

PerspectiveGenomicsDNA and traditional knowledge reveal the history of an extinct dog bred for its woolLudovic Orlando [email protected] Info & AffiliationsThe pelt of Mutton, a Coast Salish wool dog who died in 1859, is preserved in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.