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01-12-2016 | Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine

Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia: follow the string!

Authors: Manal Mazloum, Matthieu Le Meur, Guilene Barnaud, Jonathan Messika

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 12/2016

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A 75-year-old man was admitted for a febrile dyspnea. He suffered from arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and prostate cancer requiring hormonotherapy. At hospital admission, he was febrile (temperature 37.8 °C), with respiratory distress (respiratory rate 46/minute; oxygen saturation 93 % with 2 L/min oxygen), hypotensive (81/53 mmHg), and lethargic. …

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Fang CT, Chuang YP, Shun CT et al (2004) A novel virulence gene in Klebsiella pneumoniae strains causing primary liver abscess and septic metastatic complications. J Exp Med 199:697–705. doi:10.1084/jem.20030857 CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Shon AS, Bajwa RPS, Russo TA (2013) Hypervirulent (hypermucoviscous) Klebsiella pneumoniae: a new and dangerous breed. Virulence 4:107–118. doi:10.4161/viru.22718 CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Title: Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia: follow the string!
Authors: Manal Mazloum
Matthieu Le Meur
Guilene Barnaud
Jonathan Messika
Publication date: 01-12-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 12/2016
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4363-y

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