Disguised as Ovarian Tumor: A Rare Case of Uterine Abscess Due to Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection

Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) causes invasive infections in the community setting. We report a rare case of uterine abscess due to hvKp, which appeared as a large-sized ovarian tumor-like pelvic mass. A timely laboratory warning of possible hvKp prompted correct diagnosis and helped gui...

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Autores principales: Kamau, Edwin, Ranson, Elizabeth L, Zakhour, Mae, Mayo, Mark S, Sakona, Ashlyn N, Allyn, Paul R, Yang, Shangxin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Novel Id Cases
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9310266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35899277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac321
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author Kamau, Edwin
Ranson, Elizabeth L
Zakhour, Mae
Mayo, Mark S
Sakona, Ashlyn N
Allyn, Paul R
Yang, Shangxin
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Zakhour, Mae
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Sakona, Ashlyn N
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description Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) causes invasive infections in the community setting. We report a rare case of uterine abscess due to hvKp, which appeared as a large-sized ovarian tumor-like pelvic mass. A timely laboratory warning of possible hvKp prompted correct diagnosis and helped guide perioperative decision making, contributing to successful treatment.
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spelling pubmed-93102662022-07-26 Disguised as Ovarian Tumor: A Rare Case of Uterine Abscess Due to Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection Kamau, Edwin Ranson, Elizabeth L Zakhour, Mae Mayo, Mark S Sakona, Ashlyn N Allyn, Paul R Yang, Shangxin Open Forum Infect Dis Novel Id Cases Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) causes invasive infections in the community setting. We report a rare case of uterine abscess due to hvKp, which appeared as a large-sized ovarian tumor-like pelvic mass. A timely laboratory warning of possible hvKp prompted correct diagnosis and helped guide perioperative decision making, contributing to successful treatment. Oxford University Press 2022-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9310266/ /pubmed/35899277 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac321 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Novel Id Cases
Kamau, Edwin
Ranson, Elizabeth L
Zakhour, Mae
Mayo, Mark S
Sakona, Ashlyn N
Allyn, Paul R
Yang, Shangxin
Disguised as Ovarian Tumor: A Rare Case of Uterine Abscess Due to Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection
title Disguised as Ovarian Tumor: A Rare Case of Uterine Abscess Due to Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection
title_full Disguised as Ovarian Tumor: A Rare Case of Uterine Abscess Due to Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection
title_fullStr Disguised as Ovarian Tumor: A Rare Case of Uterine Abscess Due to Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection
title_full_unstemmed Disguised as Ovarian Tumor: A Rare Case of Uterine Abscess Due to Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection
title_short Disguised as Ovarian Tumor: A Rare Case of Uterine Abscess Due to Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection
title_sort disguised as ovarian tumor: a rare case of uterine abscess due to hypervirulent klebsiella pneumoniae infection
topic Novel Id Cases
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9310266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35899277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac321
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