Clinical and microbiological characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess in East China

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Qu, Ting ting ^a   Zhou, Jian cang ^b   Jiang, Yan ^b   Shi, Ke ren ^b   Li, Bin ^c   Shen, Ping ^a   Wei, Ze qing ^a   Yu, Yun Song ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Hypermucoviscous; K. pneumoniae liver abscess (KLA); Klebsiella pneumoniae; magA; Multilocus sequence typing (MLST)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LIVER ABSCESS; MAGA GENE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROGNOSIS; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RMPA GENE; SEROTYPE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; ADOLESCENT; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROGROUP; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925859226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-0899-7     Document Type: Article

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