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Antibiotic-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae causing community- acquired liver abscess: an emerging disease

We report a case of a patient with fatal community-acquired pyogenic liver abscess (CA-PLA) caused by multi drug-resistant, hypervirulent, Klebsiella pneumoniae (mdrhvKP). HvKP causing PLA has been described in East and South East Asia and it is recognized as an emerging infection worldwide. The syn...

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Autores principales: Rodriguez-Villar, S, Fife, A, Baldwin, C, Warne, R R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6544431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31198568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omz032