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ArticleScientific reports2017

Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates from Meningitis: Epidemiology, Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance.

Yee-Huang Ku, Yin-Ching Chuang, Chi-Chung Chen, Mei-Feng Lee, Yan-Chang Yang, Hung-Jen Tang, Wen-Liang Yu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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44citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yee-Huang KuDivision of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center-Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan.
Yin-Ching ChuangDivision of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center-Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan.
Chi-Chung ChenDepartment of Medical research, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
Mei-Feng LeeDepartment of Medical research, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
Yan-Chang YangDepartment of Medical research, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
Hung-Jen TangDivision of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Chi Mei Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan.
Wen-Liang YuDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan. Yuleon_md@yahoo.com.tw.
Chi Mei Medical Center · TWChia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) resistance to broad-spectrum cephalosporin (BSC) in meningitis is important because of limited therapeutic options. To investigate the antibiotic resistance, virulence and epidemiology of KP in meningitis, we conducted a retrospective study for 33 non-metastatic isolates, including primary meningitis (n = 20) and post-craniotomy meningitis (n = 13) collected from 1999 to 2013. BSC resistance was found in 9 (27.3%) isolates, all from post-craniotomy meningitis, harboring bla

Indexed as

beta-Lactam ResistanceAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial Capsulesbeta-LactamasesBlood Bactericidal ActivityCephalosporinsElectrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-FieldHumansKlebsiella InfectionsKlebsiella pneumoniaeMeningitis, BacterialMolecular TypingRetrospective StudiesSerogroupTaiwanVirulenceAnti-Bacterial Agentsbeta-LactamasesCephalosporins

Identifiers

PMID28747788
PMCPMC5529541
OpenAlexW2736971579

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