CLINICAL CASE

Clinical features of protracted intestinal infection associated with Klebsiella pneumoniae in an infant

Gonchar NV1,2, Kopersak AK1, Skripchenko NV1,3, Razdyakonova IV1, Podlipnaya YuA1
About authors

1 Pediatric Research and Clinical Center for Infectious Diseases of the Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia

2 Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

3 Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Natalia V. Gonchar
Kazanskaya, 45, Saint Petersburg, 190000, Russia; ur.xednay@rahcnogvn

About paper

Author contribution: Gonchar NV — manuscript writing and editing; Skripchenko NV — manuscript editing; Kopersak AK, Razdyakonova IV, Podlipnaya YuA — patient management, manuscript writing.

Compliance with the ethical standards: the informed consent to publication of case report was obtained from the patient’s parents.

Received: 2023-11-29 Accepted: 2024-01-26 Published online: 2024-03-20
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