First Case of Liver Abscess in Scandinavia Due to the International Hypervirulent Klebsiella Pneumoniae Clone ST23

This is the first case report from Scandinavia of a pyogenic liver abscess caused by a Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate belonging to the international hyper virulent clone ST23. The patient, an 85-year old Caucasian, had no history of foreign travel or any classical predisposing factors for infection....

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Autores principales: Gundestrup, Svend, Struve, Carsten, Stahlhut, Steen G., Hansen, Dennis Schrøder
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968548/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24688609
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874285801408010022
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author Gundestrup, Svend
Struve, Carsten
Stahlhut, Steen G.
Hansen, Dennis Schrøder
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description This is the first case report from Scandinavia of a pyogenic liver abscess caused by a Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate belonging to the international hyper virulent clone ST23. The patient, an 85-year old Caucasian, had no history of foreign travel or any classical predisposing factors for infection. The isolate was hypermucoviscous of capsular serotype K1 and carried the virulence factors aerobactin, allS, kfu and rmpA.
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spelling pubmed-39685482014-03-31 First Case of Liver Abscess in Scandinavia Due to the International Hypervirulent Klebsiella Pneumoniae Clone ST23 Gundestrup, Svend Struve, Carsten Stahlhut, Steen G. Hansen, Dennis Schrøder Open Microbiol J Article This is the first case report from Scandinavia of a pyogenic liver abscess caused by a Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate belonging to the international hyper virulent clone ST23. The patient, an 85-year old Caucasian, had no history of foreign travel or any classical predisposing factors for infection. The isolate was hypermucoviscous of capsular serotype K1 and carried the virulence factors aerobactin, allS, kfu and rmpA. Bentham Open 2014-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3968548/ /pubmed/24688609 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874285801408010022 Text en © Gundestrup et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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First Case of Liver Abscess in Scandinavia Due to the International Hypervirulent Klebsiella Pneumoniae Clone ST23
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title_short First Case of Liver Abscess in Scandinavia Due to the International Hypervirulent Klebsiella Pneumoniae Clone ST23
title_sort first case of liver abscess in scandinavia due to the international hypervirulent klebsiella pneumoniae clone st23
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968548/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874285801408010022
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