Spontaneous community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults admitted to the intensive care units in the Caribbean French West Indies: Unusual prevalence of Klebsiella pneumonia.
Aged
Bacterial Proteins
/ genetics
Community-Acquired Infections
/ epidemiology
Female
Humans
Intensive Care Units
/ statistics & numerical data
Klebsiella Infections
/ epidemiology
Klebsiella pneumoniae
/ genetics
Male
Meningitis, Bacterial
/ epidemiology
Middle Aged
Pneumonia
/ epidemiology
Prevalence
Virulence
West Indies
/ epidemiology
Epidemiology
Klebsiella pneumonia
Meningitis
Virulence
Journal
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
ISSN: 1878-3511
Titre abrégé: Int J Infect Dis
Pays: Canada
ID NLM: 9610933
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2020
Nov 2020
Historique:
received:
07
05
2020
revised:
13
09
2020
accepted:
15
09
2020
pubmed:
26
9
2020
medline:
27
1
2021
entrez:
25
9
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
An unusual prevalence of Klebsiella pneumoniae (24%) was observed in 25 adults admitted to the intensive care units of two University Hospitals in the French West Indies, for spontaneous community-acquired bacterial meningitis. All tested isolates had several prominent features of hypervirulent isolates, including rmpa and iuc genes, K1 or K2 capsular serotypes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32976993
pii: S1201-9712(20)32134-2
doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.09.1420
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Bacterial Proteins
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
473-475Informations de copyright
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