Community-acquired Klebsiella spp Meningitis/Invasive Infection in Filipino-descent Patients Living in Greece: A Case Series

• Main Authors: Giorgos Marinakis, Georgios Kassianidis, Eleni Kafkoula, Christina Stamatopoulou, Fotios Kavallieratos, Maria Patrani, Chrysostomos Katsenos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SMC MEDIA SRL 2021-06-01
• Series: European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
• Subjects: meningitis; hypervirulent klebsiella spp; liver abscess
• Online Access: https://www.ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/2576
• ISSN: 2284-2594

Klebsiella spp community-acquired meningitis caused by hypervirulent strains is well described as part of a distinct syndrome consisting of liver abscess and multiple septic metastatic lesions (Klebsiella pneumoniae invasive syndrome) occurring usually in diabetic, alcoholic, elderly or cancer patients, in Taiwan and other South-East Asian countries. In Western countries, these infections are very rare in natives and usually occur in patients of Asian origin. We report three cases of Filipino-origin patients, residents of Greece, with community-acquired invasive Klebsiella meningitis, who were treated in our ICU over a 10-year period.