pyogenic liver abscess, bacteremia, and meningitis with hypermucoviscous klebsiella pneumoniae: an unusual case report in a human t-cell lymphotropic virus positive patient of caribbean origin in the united states

pyogenic liver abscess, bacteremia, and meningitis with hypermucoviscous klebsiella pneumoniae: an unusual case report in a human t-cell lymphotropic virus positive patient of caribbean origin in the united states

;Gargi Patel;Neha Shah;Roopali Sharma
international journal for parasitology 2013 Vol. 2013 pp. -
153
patel2013casepyogenic

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Pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) is a potentially fatal disease. Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) has replaced Escherichia coli (E. coli) as the predominant causative organism for pyogenic liver abscess. Over the years a unique form of community-acquired invasive K. pneumoniae infection of the liver has been well described in Southeast Asia. This has recently been linked to a virulent hypermucoviscous K. pneumoniae phenotype and to a specific genotype, rmpA positive. To our knowledge, we report the first case of PLA with bacteremia and meningitis in a Guyanese patient with the presence of rmpA-positive K. pneumoniae with laboratory evidence in North America.

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