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Volume 13, Number 7—July 2007
Research

Virulence Characteristics of Klebsiella and Clinical Manifestations of K. pneumoniae Bloodstream Infections

Victor L. Yu*Comments to Author , Dennis S. Hansen†, Wen Chien Ko‡, Asia Sagnimeni*, Keith P. Klugman§, Herman Goossens#, Marilyn M. Wagener*, Vicente J. Benedi**1, Meningeal Disease Surveillance in South Africa¶, and the International Klebsiella Study Group

Author affiliations: *University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; †Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark; ‡National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China; §Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ¶South African Institute of Medical Research, Johannesburg, South Africa; #University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium; **Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, Spain;

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Table 2

Strain source and virulence factors, Taiwan and South Africa*

Infection type K1 or K2 
serotype, % Mucoid 
phenotype, % Aerobactin 
producer, % Mouse 
mortality rate, %†
Community-acquired pneumonia 49 (23/47) 68 (32/47) 66 (31/47) 47
Invasive syndrome 54 (7/13) 100 (13/13) 85 (11/13) 82
Other community-acquired 15 (8/55) 38 (21/55) 42 (23/55) 36
Hospital-acquired 16 (6/38) 18 (7/37) 16 (6/38) 7

*Note that strains from patients in Taiwan and South Africa with community-acquired pneumonia or the invasive syndrome (liver abscess, endophthalmitis, meningitis) were more likely to have the putative virulence factors than hospital-acquired strains. See Results for p values.
†2 mice were tested for each available strain.

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1Deceased.

2The International Klebsiella Study Group comprises the previously named authors plus Jose Maria Casellas, Gordon Trenholme, Joseph McCormack, Sunita Mohapatra, and Lutfiye Mulazimoglu.

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