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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2020 Dec 15;27(2).
doi: 10.3201/eid2702.204662. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19 and Fatal Sepsis Caused by Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, Japan, 2020
Tomohiro Hosoda, Sohei Harada, Koh Okamoto, Sumire Ishino, Makoto Kaneko, Masahiro Suzuki, Ryota Ito, Miyuki Mizoguchi
Abstract
A patient in Japan with coronavirus disease and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae K2 sequence type 86 infection died of respiratory failure. Bacterial and fungal co-infections caused by region-endemic pathogens, including hypervirulent K. pneumoniae in eastern Asia, should be included in the differential diagnosis of coronavirus disease patients with acutely deteriorating condition.
Keywords: 2019 novel coronavirus disease; COVID-19; Japan; SARS-CoV-2; bacteria; co-infection; coronavirus disease; hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae; respiratory infections; sepsis; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; string test; viruses; zoonoses.
. 2020 Dec 15;27(2).
doi: 10.3201/eid2702.204662. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19 and Fatal Sepsis Caused by Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae, Japan, 2020
Tomohiro Hosoda, Sohei Harada, Koh Okamoto, Sumire Ishino, Makoto Kaneko, Masahiro Suzuki, Ryota Ito, Miyuki Mizoguchi
- PMID: 33320080
- DOI: 10.3201/eid2702.204662
Abstract
A patient in Japan with coronavirus disease and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae K2 sequence type 86 infection died of respiratory failure. Bacterial and fungal co-infections caused by region-endemic pathogens, including hypervirulent K. pneumoniae in eastern Asia, should be included in the differential diagnosis of coronavirus disease patients with acutely deteriorating condition.
Keywords: 2019 novel coronavirus disease; COVID-19; Japan; SARS-CoV-2; bacteria; co-infection; coronavirus disease; hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae; respiratory infections; sepsis; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; string test; viruses; zoonoses.