Community-acquired invasive liver abscess syndrome caused by a K1 serotype Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate in Brazil: A case report of hypervirulent ST23

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 973-974

  Coutinho, Rosane L ^a   Visconde, Marina F ^a   Descio, Fernanda J ^a   Nicoletti, Adriana G ^a   Pinto, Flavia C L ^a   da Silva, Ana Carolina R ^a   Rodrigues Costa, Fernanda ^a   Gales, Ana C ^a   Furtado, Guilherme H C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; COMPLICATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; SEROTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNDROME; VIRULENCE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTEREMIA; BRAZIL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; SEROGROUP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNDROME; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84964315299     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140196     Document Type: Letter

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