Document Type
Case Report
Department
Internal Medicine (East Africa)
Abstract
Over the past 20 years there has been growing awareness of community-acquired primary liver abscess caused by strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. 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.
Publication (Name of Journal)
Pan African Medical Journal
Recommended Citation
Kassam, N.,
Aziz, O.,
Somji, S.,
Fidaali, Z. Y.,
Surani, S. R.
(2020). Invasive liver abscess syndrome caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae: first Tanzanian experience. Pan African Medical Journal, 36(191), 1-6.
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