TY - JOUR AU - Breurec, Sebastien AU - Melot, Benedicte AU - Hoen, Bruno AU - Passet, Virginie AU - Schepers, Kinda AU - Bastian, Sylvaine AU - Brisse, Sylvain T1 - Liver Abscess Caused by Infection with Community-Acquired Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2016 VL - 22 IS - 3 SP - 529 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report a case of pyogenic liver abscess caused by community-acquired Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae. The infecting isolate had 2 prominent features of hypervirulent K. pneumoniae strains: the capsular polysaccharide synthesis region for K1 serotype and the integrative and conjugative element ICEKp1, which encodes the virulence factors yersiniabactin, salmochelin, and RmpA. KW - Klebsiella quasipneumoniae subsp. quasipneumoniae KW - liver abscess KW - integrative and conjugative element ICEKp1 KW - capsular serotype K1 KW - bacteria DO - 10.3201/eid2203.151466 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/3/15-1466_article ER - End of Reference