Hypermucoviscosity: An extremely sticky phenotype of Klebsiella pneumoniae associated with emerging destructive tissue abscess syndrome

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1359-1361

  Kawai, Toshihisa ^a  

^a FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

ABSCESS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DESTRUCTIVE TISSUE ABSCESS SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENE MUTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERMUCOVISCOSITY PHENOTYPE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; MAGA GENE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; PYOGENIC INFECTION; RMPA GENE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SYNDROME;

HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; SYNDROME; VISCOSITY;

EID: 33646443208     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503429     Document Type: Note

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