Volume 24, Number 2—February 2018
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in Cryptogenic Liver Abscesses, Paris, France
Benjamin Rossi, Maria Ludovica Gasperini, Véronique Leflon-Guibout, Alice Gioanni, Victoire de Lastours, Geoffrey Rossi, Safi Dokmak, Maxime Ronot, Olivier Roux, Marie-Hélène Nicolas-Chanoine, Bruno Fantin, and Agnès Lefort
Table 2
Characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from 13 cryptogenic and 10 noncryptogenic liver abscesses, Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, France, 2010−2015*
| Type of abscess and microbial type |
K1/K2 serotype PCR result |
Virulence genes |
String test result |
Sequence type |
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| ybtS |
mrkD |
entD |
prmpA |
kfu |
allS |
iutA |
wcaG |
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| Cryptogenic | |||||||||||
| Monomicrobial | K1 | − | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | 23 |
| Monomicrobial | K1 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | 23 |
| Monomicrobial | K1 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | 23 |
| Monomicrobial | K1 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | 23 |
| Monomicrobial | K1 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | 23 |
| Monomicrobial | K1 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | 23 |
| Monomicrobial | K1 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | 23 |
| Monomicrobial | K1 | + | − | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | 23 |
| Monomicrobial | K1 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | 23 |
| Monomicrobial | K1 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | 23 |
| Monomicrobial | K2 | + | + | + | + | + | − | + | − | + | 679 |
| Monomicrobial | K2 | + | + | + | + | − | – | + | − | + | 86 |
| Monomicrobial | K2 | + | + | + | + | + | − | + | − | + | 380 |
| Noncryptogenic | |||||||||||
| Monomicrobial | K2 | + | + | + | + | − | − | + | − | + | 65 |
| Monomicrobial | – | − | + | + | − | − | − | − | − | − | 495 |
| Monomicrobial | – | − | + | + | − | − | − | − | − | + | 2395† |
| Polymicrobial | – | + | + | + | − | − | − | − | − | − | 17 |
| Polymicrobial | – | − | + | + | − | − | − | − | − | − | 323 |
| Polymicrobial | – | + | + | + | − | − | − | − | − | − | 45 |
| Polymicrobial | – | − | + | + | − | + | − | − | − | − | 15 |
| Polymicrobial | – | − | + | + | − | + | − | − | − | − | 188 |
| Polymicrobial | – | − | + | + | − | − | − | − | − | + | 788 |
| Polymicrobial | – | + | + | + | − | + | − | − | − | − | 405 |
*−, negative; +, positive.
†New sequence type with housekeeping gene alleles gapA133, inf27, mdh19, pgi1, phoE47, rpoB135, and ton10.
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