TY - JOUR
AU - Breurec, Sebastien
AU - Melot, Benedicte
AU - Hoen, Bruno
AU - Passet, Virginie
AU - Schepers, Kinda
AU - Bastian, Sylvaine
AU - Brisse, Sylvain
T1 - Liver Abscess Caused by Infection with Community-Acquired Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae
T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal
PY - 2016
VL - 22
IS - 3
SP - 529
SN - 1080-6059
AB - We report a case of pyogenic liver abscess caused by community-acquired Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae. The infecting isolate had 2 prominent features of hypervirulent K. pneumoniae strains: the capsular polysaccharide synthesis region for K1 serotype and the integrative and conjugative element ICEKp1, which encodes the virulence factors yersiniabactin, salmochelin, and RmpA.
KW - Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae
KW - liver abscess
KW - integrative and conjugative element ICEKp1
KW - capsular serotype K1
KW - bacteria
DO - 10.3201/eid2203.151466
UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/3/15-1466_article
ER - End of Reference