A Fatal Case of Klebsiella pneumoniae Mycotic Aneurysm

Mycotic aneurysm is a serious clinical condition with significant morbidity and mortality. Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella species are the most common causative pathogens. Klebsiella pneumoniae was rarely reported as a possible pathogen causing mycotic aneurysm; therefore, we describe a K. pneu...

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Autores principales: Chao, Chien-Ming, Lee, Kun-Kuang, Wang, Chia-Sheng, Chen, Ping-Jen, Yeh, Tsung-Chih
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3542920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326694
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/498545
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author Chao, Chien-Ming
Lee, Kun-Kuang
Wang, Chia-Sheng
Chen, Ping-Jen
Yeh, Tsung-Chih
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description Mycotic aneurysm is a serious clinical condition with significant morbidity and mortality. Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella species are the most common causative pathogens. Klebsiella pneumoniae was rarely reported as a possible pathogen causing mycotic aneurysm; therefore, we describe a K. pneumoniae-related fatal bacteremia mycotic aneurysm in a patient in spite of appropriate antimicrobial agents and surgical management.
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spelling pubmed-35429202013-01-16 A Fatal Case of Klebsiella pneumoniae Mycotic Aneurysm Chao, Chien-Ming Lee, Kun-Kuang Wang, Chia-Sheng Chen, Ping-Jen Yeh, Tsung-Chih Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report Mycotic aneurysm is a serious clinical condition with significant morbidity and mortality. Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella species are the most common causative pathogens. Klebsiella pneumoniae was rarely reported as a possible pathogen causing mycotic aneurysm; therefore, we describe a K. pneumoniae-related fatal bacteremia mycotic aneurysm in a patient in spite of appropriate antimicrobial agents and surgical management. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3542920/ /pubmed/23326694 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/498545 Text en Copyright © 2011 Chien-Ming Chao et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Chao, Chien-Ming
Lee, Kun-Kuang
Wang, Chia-Sheng
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Yeh, Tsung-Chih
A Fatal Case of Klebsiella pneumoniae Mycotic Aneurysm
title A Fatal Case of Klebsiella pneumoniae Mycotic Aneurysm
title_full A Fatal Case of Klebsiella pneumoniae Mycotic Aneurysm
title_fullStr A Fatal Case of Klebsiella pneumoniae Mycotic Aneurysm
title_full_unstemmed A Fatal Case of Klebsiella pneumoniae Mycotic Aneurysm
title_short A Fatal Case of Klebsiella pneumoniae Mycotic Aneurysm
title_sort fatal case of klebsiella pneumoniae mycotic aneurysm
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3542920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326694
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/498545
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