INTRODUCTION Isolated primary tubercular abscess is one of the rare forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. A greater awareness of this rare clinical entity may help in commencing specific evidence-based therapy quickly and preventing undue morbidity and mortality. CASE PRESENTATION A 30-year-old man, of Asian origin, developed a hepatic tubercular abscess which was not associated with any pulm...

Background: Hypervirulent variant of Klebsiella pneumoniae is the major pathogen causing liver abscess. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in 240 patients with cultures positive for K. pneumoniae hospitalized in the Chinese PLA General Hospital from May 2013 to August 2014. The clinical and molecular data of the hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (hvKP) causing liver abscess were analyzed. R...

PURPOSE To report the first case of endogenous Klebsiella endophthalmitis associated with liver abscess in Iran. CASE REPORT A 79-year-old man was referred to our hospital due to severe pain and visual loss in the left eye. On physical examination, conjunctival hyperemia, corneal edema, hypopyon and severe vitreous cellular reaction were identified in the left eye; however, yellowish conjunct...

BACKGROUND Fusobacteriae are facultative anaerobic gram-negative bacilli which cause a range of invasive infections, amongst which pyogenic liver abscesses are rare. We describe a case of Fusobacterium nucleatum liver abscess and review the relevant literature. CASE PRESENTATION A 51-year-old lady presented with a 4-day history of abdominal pain, diarrhoea, fever, rigors, and lethargy. Imagin...

Pyogenic liver abscess(PLA) which often presented by right sided abdominal pain and fever is a serious and life-threatening pathology. Biliary tract disease is the etiology of the abscess in most cases but sometimes the origin remains unidentified. A sigmoid septic source which maybe paucisymptomatic or hidden by an immunosuppressive treatment must be looked for. We present a case of liver absc...

Pyogenic liver abscess during pregnancy is an extremely rare condition. We report a case of 33-year-old, 23-week pregnant woman with pyogenic liver abscess. She was still in the hospital for medical observation of fever, when a sudden episode of tachycardia with a pulse of 210 beats per minute and tachypnea with a respiratory rate of 30 breaths per minute was encountered. At that moment, her fe...

Klebsiella pneumoniae has emerged as the leading liver abscess pathogen in Taiwan, with the percentage rising from 30% in the 1980s to over 80% in the 1990s. Most of the patients with K. pneumoniae liver abscess are diabetic and without biliary tract disease. Some patients develop serious extrahepatic complications such as endophthalmitis, meningitis, lung abscess, and necrotizing fasciitis. Pu...

We report here a simple and economical slide agglutination test, the co-agglutination (Co-A) test, for the detection of circulating amebic antigen in sera for the diagnosis of amebic liver abscess. Fifty serum specimens from cases of amebic liver abscess, 25 from other individuals with parasitic and miscellaneous infections, and 25 from healthy controls were tested for the presence of serum ant...

OBJECTIVE : To assess the role of Indirect Haemagglutination Test for the diagnosis of amoebic liver abscess. STUDY DESIGN : Comparative Study PLACE AND DURATION : This study was carried out at Basic medical Sciences Institute, JPMC, Karachi from February 2000 to January 2001. SUBJECTS AND METHODS : Blood samples were obtained from 100 cases of amoebic liver abscess and 100 age matched healthy ...