Clinical Significance and Mechanism of Gas Formation of Pyogenic Liver Abscess Due to Klebsiella pneumoniae

AUTOR(ES)

Lee, Hsin-Ling

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

We enrolled 22 patients with gas-forming pyogenic liver abscess in a study to assess the mechanism of gas formation. Klebsiella pneumoniae was cultured from specimens from all patients. Gas and pus samples from abscesses revealed four major components: nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen; this implicates mixed acid fermentation of glucose as the mechanism of gas formation.

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