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Peculiar purulence: Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae causing pyomyositis

This report describes the first confirmed case of isolated pyomyositis caused by a hypervirulent strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Pyomyositis is almost universally caused by gram-positive organisms and while the recent emergence of invasive disease due to hypervirulent K. pneumoniae has been well do...

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Published in:Int J Infect Dis
Main Authors: Mgbemena, Okechukwu, Serota, David P., Kumar, Sonali, Wozniak, Jessie E., Weiss, David S., Kempker, Russell Ryan
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5994752/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29030138
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2017.09.030
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