First case of liver abscess in Scandinavia due to the international hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae clone ST23

Open Microbiology Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 22-24

  Gundestrup, Svend ^a   Struve, Carsten ^b   Stahlhut, Steen G ^b   Hansen, Dennis Schrøder ^c  

^a Frederikssund Hospital   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Klebsiella pneumoniae; Liver abscess; ST23

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; MECILLINAM; PENICILLIN G; AEROBACTIN; ALLS; KFU; RMPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SCANDINAVIA; SEROTYPE; UROSEPSIS; VERY ELDERLY; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANOREXIA; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; HEADACHE;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84899830464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18742858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874285801408010022     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Podschun R, Ullmann U. Klebsiella spp. as nosocomial pathogens: epidemiology, taxonomy, typing methods, and pathogenicity factors. Clin Microbiol Rev 1998; 11: 589-603.
2. Ko W-C, Paterson DL, Sagnimeni AJ, et al. Community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia: global differences in clinical patterns. Emerg Infect Dis 2002; 8: 160-6.
3. Fung C-P, Chang F-Y, Lee S-C, et al. A global emerging disease of Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess: is serotype K1 an important factor for complicated endophthalmitis? Gut 2002; 50: 420-4.
4. Wang JH, Liu YC, Lee SS, et al. Primary liver abscess due to Klebsiella pneumoniae in Taiwan. Clin Infect Dis 1998; 26: 1434-8.
5. Yu VL, Hansen DS, Ko WC, et al. Virulence characteristics of Klebsiella and clinical manifestations of K. pneumoniae bloodstream infections. Emerg Infect Dis 2007; 13: 986-93.
6. Tsai F-C, Huang Y-T, Chang L-Y, Wang J-T. Pyogenic liver abscess as endemic disease, Taiwan. Emerg Infect Dis 2008; 14: 1592-600.
7. Chung DR, Lee SS, Lee HR, et al. Emerging invasive liver abscess caused by K1 serotype Klebsiella pneumoniae in Korea. J Infect 2007; 54: 578-83.
8. Yu W-L, Ko W-C, Cheng K-C, et al. Comparison of prevalence of virulence factors for Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscesses between isolates with capsular K1/K2 and non-K1/K2 serotypes. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2008; 62: 1-6.
9. Brisse S, Fevre C, Passet V, et al. Virulent clones of Klebsiella pneumoniae: identification and evolutionary scenario based on genomic and phenotypic characterization. Neyrolles O, editor. PLoS One Public Library of Science; 2009; 4: e4982.
10. Chou H-C, Lee C-Z, Ma L-C, et al. Isolation of a chromosomal region of Klebsiella pneumoniae associated with allantoin metabolism and liver infection. Infect Immun 2004; 72: 3783-92.
11. Struve C, Bojer M, Nielsen EM, Hansen DS, Krogfelt KA. Investigation of the putative virulence gene magA in a worldwide collection of 495 Klebsiella isolates: magA is restricted to the gene cluster of Klebsiella pneumoniae capsule serotype K1. J Med Microbiol 2005; 54: 1111-3.
12. Turton JF, Englender H, Gabriel SN, et al. Genetically similar isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae serotype K1 causing liver abscesses in three continents. J Med Microbiol 2007; 56: 593-7.
13. Chung DR, Lee HR, Lee SS, et al. Evidence for clonal dissemination of the serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae strain causing invasive liver abscesses in Korea. J Clin Microbiol 2008; 46: 4061-3.
14. Sobirk SK, Struve C, Jacobsson SG. Primary Klebsiella pneumoniae Liver abscess with metastatic spread to lung and eye, a north-european case report of an emerging syndrome. Open Microbiol J 2010; 4: 5-7.
15. Nadasy KA, Domiati-Saad R, Tribble MA. Invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae syndrome in North America. Clin Infect Dis 2007; 45: e25-8.
16. Frazee BW, Hansen S, Lambert L. Invasive infection with hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae: multiple cases presenting to a single emergency department in the United States. Ann Emerg Med 2009; 53: 639-42.
17. McCabe R, Lambert L, Frazee B. Invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae infections, California, USA. Emerg Infect Dis 2010; 16: 1490-1.
18. Fang FC, Sandler N, Libby SJ. Liver abscess caused by magA+ Klebsiella pneumoniae in North America. J Clin Microbiol 2005; 43: 991-2.
19. Keynan Y, Karlowsky JA, Walus T, Rubinstein E. Pyogenic liver abscess caused by hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae. Scand J Infect Dis 2007; 39: 828-30.
20. Karama EM, Willermain F, Janssens X, et al. Endogenous endophthalmitis complicating Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess in Europe: case report. Int Ophthalmol 2008; 28: 111-3.
21. Gomez C, Broseta A, Otero JR, Chaves F. Primary pyogenic liver abscess caused by magA+ Klebsiella pneumoniae in Spain. Clin Microbiol News 2007; 29: 100-2.
22. Lederman ER, Crum NF. Pyogenic liver abscess with a focus on Klebsiella pneumoniae as a primary pathogen: an emerging disease with unique clinical characteristics. Am J Gastroenterol 2005; 100: 322-31.
23. Decré D, Verdet C, Emirian A, et al. Emerging severe and fatal infections due to klebsiella pneumoniae in two university hospitals in France. J Clin Microbiol 2011; 49: 3012-4.
24. Merlet a, Cazanave C, Dutronc H, et al. Primary liver abscess due to CC23-K1 virulent clone of Klebsiella pneumoniae in France. Clin Microbiol Infect 2012; 18: E338-9.
25. Baraniak A, Grabowska A, Izdebski R, et al. Molecular characteristics of KPC-producing Enterobacteriaceae at the early stage of their dissemination in Poland, 2008-2009. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2011; 55: 5493-9.
26. Diancourt L, Passet V, Verhoef J, Grimont PAD, Brisse S. Multilocus sequence typing of Klebsiella pneumoniae nosocomial isolates. J Clin Microbiol 2005; 43: 4178-82.
27. Fang C-T, Lai S-Y, Yi W-C, et al. Klebsiella pneumoniae genotype K1: an emerging pathogen that causes septic ocular or central nervous system complications from pyogenic liver abscess. Clin Infect Dis 2007; 45: 284-93.
28. Siu LK, Fung C-P, Chang F-Y, et al. Molecular typing and virulence analysis of serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae strains isolated from liver abscess patients and stool samples from noninfectious subjects in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. J Clin Microbiol 2011; 49: 3761-5.
29. Chung DR, Lee H, Park MH, et al. Fecal carriage of serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae ST23 strains closely related to liver abscess isolates in Koreans living in Korea. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2012; 31: 481-6.