Spontaneous community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults admitted to the intensive care units in the Caribbean French West Indies: Unusual prevalence of Klebsiella pneumonia

Pascale Piednoir (1) , Ulrich Clarac (1) , Amélie Rolle (1) , Sylvaine Bastian (1) , Gaelle Gruel (2) , Frédéric Martino (1) , Hossein Mehdaoui (3) , Marc Valette (1) , Sébastien Breurec (2, 4, 5) , Michel Carles (1, 4, 6)

1 CHU Pointe-à-Pitre/Abymes [Guadeloupe]
2 Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe
3 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Martinique [Fort-de-France, Martinique]
4 UA - Université des Antilles
5 CIC - Antilles Guyane - Centre d'Investigation Clinique Antilles-Guyane
6 C3M - Centre méditerranéen de médecine moléculaire

An unusual prevalence of Klebsiella pneumoniae (24%) was observed in 25 adults admitted to the intensive care units of two University Hospitals in the French West Indies, for spontaneous community-acquired bacterial meningitis. All tested isolates had several prominent features of hypervirulent isolates, including rmpa and iuc genes, K1 or K2 capsular serotypes.

Keywords: Epidemiology; Klebsiella pneumonia; Meningitis; Virulence

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Pascale Piednoir, Ulrich Clarac, Amélie Rolle, Sylvaine Bastian, Gaelle Gruel, et al.. Spontaneous community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults admitted to the intensive care units in the Caribbean French West Indies: Unusual prevalence of Klebsiella pneumonia. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020, 100, pp.473 - 475. ⟨10.1016/j.ijid.2020.09.1420⟩. ⟨hal-03493311⟩