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Emergence of Severe Metastatic Hypervirulent <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> infections in Texas
2021-06-09
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) infections have mainly been described in Asia. Two patients in the age group of 30 to 50 years presented within a two month period to a tertiary referral hospital in Texas with septic shock, hepatic abscess and septic thrombophlebitis. Blood cultures were positive for Klebsiella pneumoniae (isolates 2020CK-00441 and 2021CK-00720 respe...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7e106923-f291-52cc-8fdc-2e946af9cd19
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.06.08.21257347
