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Reports outline community-acquired study findings from C.M. Chang and colleagues

Published in Blood Weekly, September 25th, 2008

According to recent research from Tainan, Taiwan, "Klebsiella pneumoniae was rarely reported to cause complicated skin and soft tissue infections (cSSTIs). Our study was to delineate clinical characteristics and outcome of cSSTIs involving extremities caused by K. pneumoniae."

"Adult patients aged 16 years or more with community-acquired cSSTIs, which involved the extremities and were caused by four common aerobic pathogens at a medical center in southern Taiwan during a 54-month period, were reviewed. Of 76 cases enrolled, Staphylococcus aureus was the most common pathogen (52 cases, 68%), followed by K. pneumoniae (16, 21%), beta-hemolytic streptococci (5, 7%), and...

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