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The Pan African Medical Journal
Invasive liver abscess syndrome caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae: first Tanzanian experience
Omar Mohamed Aziz1  Samina Sadrudin Somji2  Nadeem Mehboob Kassam2  Zainab Yusuf Fidaali3  Salim Ramzan Surani44 
[1] Department of Internal Medicine, Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;Department of Internal Medicine, Aga Khan University Medical College,Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa;Department of Radiology, Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;;
关键词: hepatic abscess;    invasive syndrome;    klebsiella pneumoniae;   
DOI  :  10.11604/pamj.2020.36.191.23070
来源: DOAJ
【 摘 要 】

Over the past 20 years there has been growing awareness of community-acquired primary liver abscess caused by strains of Klebsiella pneumoniaeK. pneumoniae) especially in patients of Asian descent, a minority of which are characterized by metastatic spread. A common and frequent destructive complication is endophthalmitis as well as the involvement of the central nervous system (CNS), causing suppurative meningitis or brain abscess. Here we report a case of invasive liver abscess caused by K. Pneumoniae in an Asian patient who presented to our hospital in Tanzania with bilateral lower limb swelling for 6 weeks with acute onset of difficulty in breathing.

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