| Literature DB >> 21677064 |
Dominique Decré1, Charlotte Verdet, Aurélie Emirian, Thibault Le Gourrierec, Jean-Claude Petit, Georges Offenstadt, Eric Maury, Sylvain Brisse, Guillaume Arlet.
Abstract
Severe infections caused by hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae have been reported in Southeast Asian countries over the past several decades. This report shows their emergence in France, with 12 cases observed during a 2-year period in two university hospitals. Two clones (sequence type 86 [ST86] and ST380) of serotype K2 caused five rapidly fatal bacteremia cases, three of which were associated with pneumonia, whereas seven liver abscess cases were caused by K1 strains of ST23.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21677064 PMCID: PMC3147753 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00676-11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948