A Case of Ventriculitis Associated with Renal Abscess Caused by Serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae

• Published in: Infection & chemotherapy Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 120 - 124
• Main Authors: Hyun, Ji In, Kim, Youn Jeong, Jeon, Yoon Hee, Kim, Sang Il, Park, Yeon Joon, Kang, Moon Won, Kim, Woohyeon, Jang, Ji Hye
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Korea (South) The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 01.06.2014; 대한감염학회
• Subjects: Case Report; 내과학; Abscess, Kidney; Central nervous system infection; Cerebral ventriculitis; Klebsiella pneumoniae
• ISSN: 2093-2340; 2092-6448
• DOI: 10.3947/ic.2014.46.2.120

Recently, serotype K1 Klebsiella pneumoniae has been a major agent of an invasive syndrome characterized by liver abscess and its metastatic infection. Extrahepatic infection and its characteristics in patients with renal abscess caused by K. pneumoniae are poorly understood, and few cases of central nervous system infection have been reported. This is a report of 80-year-old woman with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus with renal abscess caused by serotype K1 K. pneumoniae, complicated with ventriculitis despite of appropriate use of antibiotics. Physicians need to be aware of possibility of metastatic infection in patients with serotype K1 K. pneumoniae infection, if they develop neurologic symptom and focus of infection is still present.