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Over the past 20 years there has been an increasing awareness of a distinct invasive clinical syndrome caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae in patients from Asian descent.
Here we report two cases of invasive K.pneumoniae infection in Asian patients who both presented in Glasgow, UK, with liver abscesses within a 6‐month period.
Clinicians should be vigilant for mucoid strains of K. pneumoniae isolated from patients with liver abscesses of Asian descent and thorough in their investigation for metastatic complications.
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