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Volume 27, Number 2—February 2021
Dispatch

COVID-19 and Fatal Sepsis Caused by Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, Japan, 2020

Tomohiro HosodaComments to Author , Sohei Harada, Koh Okamoto, Sumire Ishino, Makoto Kaneko, Masahiro Suzuki, Ryota Ito, and Miyuki Mizoguchi
Author affiliations: Kawasaki Municipal Kawasaki Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan (T. Hosoda, S. Ishino, M. Kaneko); The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan (S. Harada, K. Okamoto, M. Mizoguchi); Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan (M. Suzuki, R. Ito)

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Figure 1

Chest radiographs (anteroposterior views) of hospitalized patient with coronavirus disease and fatal superimposed hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae K2 sequence type 86 infection, Japan, 2020. A) Hospitalization day 1 (admission), showing no ground glass opacity and consolidation. B) Hospitalization day 7, showing asymmetric infiltrates with pleural effusion, mainly in left lung. C) Hospitalization day 8, showing infiltrate spread to right lower lung and worsened pleural effusion in left lung.

Figure 1. Chest radiographs (anteroposterior views) of hospitalized patient with coronavirus disease and fatal superimposed hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae K2 sequence type 86 infection, Japan, 2020. A) Hospitalization day 1 (admission), showing no ground glass opacity and consolidation. B) Hospitalization day 7, showing asymmetric infiltrates with pleural effusion, mainly in left lung. C) Hospitalization day 8, showing infiltrate spread to right lower lung and worsened pleural effusion in left lung.

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