References & Resources

Brain Abscess

Clinical Pearls

Microbiology

Spectrum of invasive disease wide:
- risk factors:
-- diabetes
-- capsular types K1

- primarily assoc with liver abscesses
- other associations: bacteraemia, meningitis, endophthalmitis, necrotising fasciitis


- genitourinary involvement reported : incl emphysematous prostatitis

(Siu et al, Lancet Inf Dis 2013)

Klebsiella pneumoniae implicated in protean manifestations of infection