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38 of 39 Antibiotics Failed: Klebsiella in Fish Farms
Thirty-eight drugs out of thirty-nine did nothing. A 2026 study of farmed bullfrogs in central China ran a full susceptibility panel against a single isolate pulled from a sick animal, and exactly one compound came back with a susceptible reading. Polymyxin B, 17 mm zone. Ampicillin through meropenem, all resistant or intermediate. The bug was Klebsiella pneumoniae. If you run a fish or amphibian operation, that name probably has never come up in a meeting. Which is sort of the point. Multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in aquaculture stopped being a story borrowed from human medicine the moment it turned up in a production pond, killed animals under controlled conditions, and showed…


