An increasing prominent disease of Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess: Etiology, diagnosis, and treatment

Gastroenterology Research and Practice

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Liu, Yun ^a   Wang, Ji Yao ^a   Jiang, Wei ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; BILIRUBIN; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFCAPENE PIVOXIL; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFOTETAN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; INSULIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SULTAMICILLIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHILL; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIARRHEA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HOST RESISTANCE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; JAUNDICE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIA LIVER ABSCESS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG INFILTRATE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOGENESIS; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PROGNOSIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

EID: 84886689861     PISSN: 16876121     EISSN: 1687630X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/258514     Document Type: Review

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