Reply to Yu et al., Fung and Siu, and Lin et al
Open Access
- 1 December 2007
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 45 (11) , 1532-1533
- https://doi.org/10.1086/523009
Abstract
To the Editor—Yu et al. [1] report a lower prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae primary liver abscess caused by K1/K2 than by non-K1/K2 strains (50%/60% vs. 86%; P = .050), thereby suggesting that poor glycemic control in diabetic patients might increase susceptibility to non-K1/K2 liver abscess, rather than K1/K2 liver abscess, as was jointly proposed by Fung and Siu [2, 3] and Lin et al. [3, 4]. Further studies are required to clarify this issue.Keywords
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