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Published on: May 1, 2021
A 54-year-old healthy patient with meningitis and conjunctivitis
Gilles Troché1, Amandine Henry2, Florence Sarfati1
1Service de Réanimation Centre Hospitalier de Versailles Hôpital André Mignot Le Chesnay France.
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.
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