A 54‐year‐old healthy patient with meningitis and conjunctivitis

A 54‐year‐old healthy patient with meningitis and conjunctivitis

Abstract We describe a case report of hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) promptly diagnosed by blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture with positive string test. The patient, without medical history, developed in a few hours multiple localizations, typical of hypervirulent KP. Combinati...

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Main Authors: Gilles Troché, Amandine Henry, Florence Sarfati, Charles Hickel, Marlène Amara, Fabrice Bruneel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-04-01
Series:Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open
Subjects:
bacteremia
endophthalmitis
hypermucoviscous
hypervirulent
Klebsiella pneumoniae
liver abscess
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12425
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spelling doaj-c3cee182b6f342af83c17b36526dac822021-04-28T12:02:34ZengWileyJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open2688-11522021-04-0122n/an/a10.1002/emp2.12425A 54‐year‐old healthy patient with meningitis and conjunctivitisGilles Troché0Amandine Henry1Florence Sarfati2Charles Hickel3Marlène Amara4Fabrice Bruneel5Service de Réanimation Centre Hospitalier de Versailles Hôpital André Mignot Le Chesnay FranceService de microbiologie Centre Hospitalier de Versailles Hôpital André Mignot Le Chesnay FranceService de Réanimation Centre Hospitalier de Versailles Hôpital André Mignot Le Chesnay FranceService de Réanimation Centre Hospitalier de Versailles Hôpital André Mignot Le Chesnay FranceService de microbiologie Centre Hospitalier de Versailles Hôpital André Mignot Le Chesnay FranceService de Réanimation Centre Hospitalier de Versailles Hôpital André Mignot Le Chesnay FranceAbstract We describe a case report of hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) promptly diagnosed by blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture with positive string test. The patient, without medical history, developed in a few hours multiple localizations, typical of hypervirulent KP. Combination of multiple typical localizations (eye, CSF, pulmonary, hepatic) and string test enabled rapid diagnosis of hypermcoviscous and hypervirulent KP.https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12425bacteremiaendophthalmitishypermucoviscoushypervirulentKlebsiella pneumoniaeliver abscess
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author Gilles Troché
Amandine Henry
Florence Sarfati
Charles Hickel
Marlène Amara
Fabrice Bruneel
spellingShingle Gilles Troché
Amandine Henry
Florence Sarfati
Charles Hickel
Marlène Amara
Fabrice Bruneel
A 54‐year‐old healthy patient with meningitis and conjunctivitis
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open
bacteremia
endophthalmitis
hypermucoviscous
hypervirulent
Klebsiella pneumoniae
liver abscess
author_facet Gilles Troché
Amandine Henry
Florence Sarfati
Charles Hickel
Marlène Amara
Fabrice Bruneel
author_sort Gilles Troché
title A 54‐year‐old healthy patient with meningitis and conjunctivitis
title_short A 54‐year‐old healthy patient with meningitis and conjunctivitis
title_full A 54‐year‐old healthy patient with meningitis and conjunctivitis
title_fullStr A 54‐year‐old healthy patient with meningitis and conjunctivitis
title_full_unstemmed A 54‐year‐old healthy patient with meningitis and conjunctivitis
title_sort 54‐year‐old healthy patient with meningitis and conjunctivitis
publisher Wiley
series Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open
issn 2688-1152
publishDate 2021-04-01
description Abstract We describe a case report of hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) promptly diagnosed by blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture with positive string test. The patient, without medical history, developed in a few hours multiple localizations, typical of hypervirulent KP. Combination of multiple typical localizations (eye, CSF, pulmonary, hepatic) and string test enabled rapid diagnosis of hypermcoviscous and hypervirulent KP.
topic bacteremia
endophthalmitis
hypermucoviscous
hypervirulent
Klebsiella pneumoniae
liver abscess
url https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12425
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