Necrotizing fasciitis caused by hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Filipino female in North America

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 165-168

  Ng, Daniel ^a   Frazee, Brad ^a  

^a HIGHLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Infectious pathogens; klebsiella pneumoniae; Necrotizing fasciits; Skin and soft tissue infections

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STEROID;

ACIDOSIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; FILIPINO (CITIZEN); GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NECK; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; SEPSIS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SWELLING; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UREMIA; ETHNOLOGY; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FATALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHILIPPINES; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CALIFORNIA; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 84921634953     PISSN: 1936900X     EISSN: 19369018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2014.11.23599     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Perez F, Van Duin D. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: A menace to our most vulnerable patients. Cleve Clin J Med. 2013;8:225-233.
2. Lee HC, Chuang YC, Yu WL, et al. Clinical implications of hypermucoviscosity phenotype in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates: An association with invasive syndrome in patients with community acquired bacteremia. J Intern Med. 2006;259:606-614.
3. Chou FF, Kou HK. Endogenous endopthalmitis associated with pyogenic hepatic abscess. J Am Coll Surg. 1996;182:33-36.
4. Hu BS, Lau YJ, Shi ZY, et al. Necrotizing fasciitis associated with Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess. Clin Infect Dis. 1999;29:1360-1361.
5. Ho PL, Tang WM, Yuen KY. Klebsiella pneumoniae necrotizing fasciitis associated with diabetes and liver cirrhosis. Clin Infect Dis. 2000;30:989-990.
6. Wong CH, Kurup A, Wang YS, et al. Four cases of necrotizing fasciitis caused by Klebsiella species. Eur J of Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2004;23:403-407.
7. Kenny K, Boris F, Wing-Yuk I. Klebsiella pneumoniae causing necrotizing fasciitis in a patient with thalassemia major. J Orthop Trauma Rehabil. 2011;15:25-26.
8. Mita N, Narahara H, Okawa M, et al. Necrotizing fasciitis following psoas muscle abscess caused by hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae. J Infect Chemother. 2012;18:565-568.
9. Cheng N, Yu Y, Tai H, et al. Recent trend of necrotizing fasciitis in Taiwan: Focus on monomicrobial Klebsiella pneumoniae necrotizing fasciitis. Clin Infect Dis. 2012;55:930-939.
10. Gunnarson GL, Brandt PB, Gad D, et al. Monomicrobial necrotizing fasciitis in a white male caused by hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae. J Med Microbiol. 2009;58:1519-1521.
11. Whallet EJ, Stevenson JH, Wilmshurst AD. Necrotising fasciitis of the extremity. J Plast Reconstr Aesth Surg. 2010;63:469-473.
12. Decre D, Verdet C, Emirian A, et al. Emerging severe and fatal infectious due to Klebsiella pneumoniae in two university hospitals in France. J Clin Microbiol. 2011; 49:3012-3014.
13. Kohler JE, Hutches MP, Sadow PM, et al. Klebsiella pneumoniae necrotizing fasciitis and septic arthritis: An appearance in the western hemisphere. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2007;8:227-232.
14. Kelesidis T, Tsiodras S. Postirradiation Klebsiella pneumoniae-Associated necrotizing fasciitis in the Western Hemisphere: A rare but life threatening clinical entity. Am J Med Sci. 2009;338:217-224.
15. Persichino J, Tran R, Sutjita M, et al. Klebsiella pneumoniae necrotizing fasciitis in a Latin American male. J Med Microbiol. 2012;61:1614-1616.
16. Rana MM, Sturdevant M, Patel G, et al. Klebsiella necrotizing soft tissues infections in liver transplant recipients: a case series. Transpl Infect Dis. 2013;15:157-163.
17. Thomas AJ, Mong S, Golub, et al. Klebsiella pneumoniae cervical necrotizing fasciitis originating as an abscess. Am J Otolaryngol. 2012;33:764-766.
18. Yu, WL, Ko WC, Cheng KC, et al. Association between rmpA and magA genes and clinical syndromes caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae in Taiwan. Clin Infect Dis. 2006;42:1351-1358.
19. 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;53:639-642.
20. Lee SS. Klebsiella pneumoniae is an emerging pathogen in necrotizing fasciitis. Clin Infect Dis. 2012;55:940-942.
21. Shon AS, Bajwa R, Russo TA. Hypervirulent (hypermucoviscous) Klebsiella pneumoniae: a new and dangerous breed. Virulence. 2013;4:107-118.
22. Kawai T. Hypermucoviscosity: An extremely stick phenotype of Klebsiella pneumoniae associated with emerging destructive tissues abscess syndrome. Clin Infect Dis. 2006;42:1359-1361.
23. McCabe R, Lambert L, Frazee B. Invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae infections. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010;16:1490-1491.
24. Suyama J. Sztajnkrycer M, Lindsell C, et al. Surveillance of Infectious Disease Occurrences in the community: An analysis of symptom presentation in the emergency department. Acad Emerg Med. 2003;10:753-763.
25. Talan DA, Moran GJ, Mower WR, et al. EMERGEncy ID NET: an emergency department-based emerging infectious sentinel network. The EMERGEncy ID NET Study Group. Ann of Emerg Med. 1998;32:703-711.