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Two unusual cases of successful treatment of hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae invasive syndrome [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2016 Background A few Japanese cases of hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) invasive syndrome have recently been reported. Although extrahepatic complications from bacteremic dissemination have been observed, infected aneurysms are rare ...
Hiroki Namikawa +8 more
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A Case Series of Hypermucoid Klebsiella pneumoniae Liver Abscess in Caucasian Americans Without Travel History: An Epidemiologic Shift? [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) is an emerging cause of community‐acquired pyogenic liver abscess (PLA), classically described in East and Southeast Asia. We report two cases of hvKp‐associated PLA in Caucasian women of American origin with no history of international travel, animal exposure, or Asian food consumption. Both patients
Sakalabaktula K +6 more
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Antibiotics, 2022 The rise of a new hypervirulent variant of Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) was recently reported, mainly linked to the ST23 lineage. The hvKp variants can cause severe infections, including hepatic abscesses, bacteremia, and meningitis, with a particularly ...
Aurora Piazza +6 more
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Virulence Factors in Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) has spread globally since first described in the Asian Pacific Rim. It is an invasive variant that differs from the classical K.
Jie Zhu +4 more
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Clinical Case Reports, 2021 Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumonia is becoming recognized globally and has been associated with serious sequelae including death. However, ethnicity and metastatic infections are characteristics for hypermucoviscous hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ...
Emad M. Salawati
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Bartholin's abscess caused by hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae [PDF]
Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2009 Klebsiella pneumoniae serogroups displaying the hypermucoviscosity phenotype are associated with a distinct clinical syndrome characterized by liver abscesses, bacteraemia and metastatic lesions. We describe here what we believe to be the first reported case of hypermucoviscous K.
Benjamin A, Pinsky +3 more
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Hypervirulent (hypermucoviscous)Klebsiella pneumoniae [PDF]
Virulence, 2013 A new hypervirulent (hypermucoviscous) variant of Klebsiella pneumoniae has emerged. First described in the Asian Pacific Rim, it now increasingly recognized in Western countries. Defining clinical features are the ability to cause serious, life-threatening community-acquired infection in younger healthy hosts, including liver abscess, pneumonia ...
Shon, Alyssa S. +2 more
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 The recent emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae with hypervirulent traits causing severe infections and considerable mortality is a global cause for concern. The challenges posed by these hypermucoviscous strains of K.
Tuhina Banerjee +4 more
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A 54‐year‐old healthy patient with meningitis and conjunctivitis
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021 We describe a case report of hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) promptly diagnosed by blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture with positive string test.
Gilles Troché +5 more
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Diversity and function of phage encoded depolymerases [PDF]
, 2020 Bacteriophages of the Podoviridae family often exhibit so-called depolymerases as structural components of the virion. These enzymes appear as tail spike proteins (TSPs).
Fieseler, Lars +2 more
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