Rapidly fatal bacteremic pneumonia caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae with K1 hypermucoviscosity phenotype in a previously healthy young man receiving levofloxacin treatment

J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2009 Oct;42(5):439-41.

Abstract

Fatal bacteremic Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia is commonly encountered in alcoholic and diabetic patients. This report describes a previously healthy young man with rapidly fatal bacteremic pneumonia caused by K. pneumoniae serotype K1, complicated by septic shock and multiple organ dysfunction.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Antigens, Bacterial
  • Bacteremia / complications
  • Bacteremia / drug therapy
  • Bacteremia / microbiology*
  • Bacterial Capsules / analysis*
  • Bacterial Typing Techniques
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Klebsiella Infections / diagnosis*
  • Klebsiella Infections / drug therapy
  • Klebsiella Infections / microbiology
  • Klebsiella pneumoniae / isolation & purification*
  • Levofloxacin*
  • Male
  • Multiple Organ Failure
  • Ofloxacin / therapeutic use*
  • Phenotype
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / complications
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / drug therapy
  • Pneumonia, Bacterial / microbiology*
  • Polysaccharides, Bacterial
  • Serotyping
  • Shock, Septic
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Antigens, Bacterial
  • Polysaccharides, Bacterial
  • capsular polysaccharide K1
  • Levofloxacin
  • Ofloxacin