Invasive Infection With Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae: Multiple Cases Presenting to a Single Emergency Department in the United States
| Autor: | Larry Lambert, Bradley W. Frazee, Shandi Hansen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Klebsiella pneumoniae California Intensive care Internal medicine Genotype medicine Humans Intensive care medicine Clinical syndrome biology business.industry K pneumoniae Emergency department Middle Aged medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Anti-Bacterial Agents Klebsiella Infections Community-Acquired Infections Phenotype Bacteremia Emergency Medicine business Liver abscess |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Emergency Medicine. 53:639-642 |
| ISSN: | 0196-0644 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.11.007 |
| Popis: | A distinctive form of community-acquired invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae infection has been well described in Southeast Asia for more than 2 decades. The clinical syndrome includes liver abscess, bacteremia, and metastatic infection. It has recently been linked to a virulent hypermucoviscous K pneumoniae phenotype and to a specific genotype. As of 2008, there were only 2 published cases of invasive infection caused by this strain of K pneumoniae in the United States. We report 4 recent cases presenting to a single public hospital emergency department in northern California, which may signal the emergence of this clinical syndrome in North America. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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