Clinical implications of hypermucoviscosity phenotype in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates: Association with invasive syndrome in patients with community-acquired bacteraemia

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 259, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 606-614

  Lee, H C ^a   Chuang, Y C ^b   Yu, W L ^b,c   Lee, N Y ^d   Chang, C M ^d   Ko, N Y ^a   Wang, L R ^d   Ko, W C ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Hypermucoviscosity; Invasive syndrome; Klebsiella pneumoniae; magA gene

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMUCOVISCOSITY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAGA GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VISCOSITY;

AGED; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MUCUS; PHENOTYPE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SYNDROME; VIRULENCE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 33646742397     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: 13652796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2006.01641.x     Document Type: Article

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