Community-onset Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia in Taiwan: clinical features of the disease and associated microbiological characteristics of isolates from pneumonia and nasopharynx

Community-onset Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia in Taiwan: clinical features of the disease and associated microbiological characteristics of isolates from pneumonia and nasopharynx

Klebsiella pneumoniae is an important cause of community-onset pneumonia in Asian countries and South Africa. We investigated the clinical characteristics of K. pneumoniae causing community-onset pneumonia, and the associated microbiological features between K. pneumoniae isolates from pneumonia and...

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Main Authors: Yi-Tsung eLin, Wu-Ping eWang, Fu-Der eWang, Chang-Phone eFung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Nasopharynx
Pneumonia
MLST-genotyping
capsular types
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00122/full

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