Lower prevalence of diabetes mellitus in patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae primary liver abscess caused by isolates of K1/K2 than with non-K1/K2 capsular serotypes

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1529-1530

  Yu, Wen Liang ^a,c   Chan, Khee Siang ^a   Ko, Wen Chien ^b   Lee, Ching Chien ^a   Chuang, Yin Ching ^a  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COLON PERFORATION; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EYE INFECTION; GENOTYPE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; LIVER ABSCESS; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONITIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; SEROTYPING;

DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING;

EID: 38449090792     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/523006     Document Type: Letter

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