Community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia: global differences in clinical patterns. (Research).(Statistical Data Included)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: February 1, 2002| Author: Casellas, Jose Maria; Goossens, Herman; Hansen, Dennis S.; Klugman, Keith P.; Ko, Wen-Chien; McCormack, Joseph G.; Mohapatra, Sunita; Mulazimoglu, Lutfiye; Paterson, David L.; Sagnimeni, Anthanasia J.; Trenholme, Gordon; Von Gottberg, Anne; Yu, Victor L. | Copyright information

We initiated a worldwide collaborative study, including 455 episodes of bacteremia, to elucidate the clinical patterns of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Historically, community-acquired pneumonia has been consistently associated with K. pneumoniae. Only four cases of community-acquired bacteremic K. pneumoniae pneumonia were seen in the 2-year study period in the United States, Argentina, Europe, or Australia; none were in alcoholics. In contrast, 53 cases of bacteremic K. pneumoniae pneum...

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