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Liver Abscess Caused by Infection with Community-Acquired Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp quasipneumoniae
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Liver Abscess Caused by Infection with Community-Acquired Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp quasipneumoniae

Sebastien Breurec, Benedicte Melot, Bruno Hoen, Virginie Passet, Kinda Schepers, Sylvaine Bastian et Sylvain Brisse
Emerging infectious diseases, Vol.22(3), pp.529-531
01/03/2016
PMID: 26890371

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Immunology Infectious Diseases Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology
We report a case of pyogenic liver abscess caused by community-acquired Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae. The infecting isolate had 2 prominent features of hypervirulent K. pneumoniae strains: the capsular polysaccharide synthesis region for K1 serotype and the integrative and conjugative element ICEKp1, which encodes the virulence factors yersiniabactin, salmochelin, and RmpA.

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