Familial spread of a virulent clone of Klebsiella pneumoniae causing primary liver abscess

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2354-2356

  Harada, Sohei ^a   Tateda, Kazuhiro ^a   Mitsui, Hiroshi ^b   Hattori, Yusuke ^b   Okubo, Masao ^b   Kimura, Sei ^b   Sekigawa, Kenichiro ^b   Kobayashi, Katsuya ^b   Hashimoto, Naoaki ^b   Itoyama, Satoru ^b   Nakai, Tatsuro ^b   Suzuki, Takeo ^b   Ishii, Yoshikazu ^a   Yamaguchi, Keizo ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO TEISHIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; PANIPENEM PLUS BETAMIPRON; PAZUFLOXACIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER INJURY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHENOTYPE; YOUNG ADULT;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 79957493377     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00034-11     Document Type: Article

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