Publications by authors named "Katharina Geisenhainer"
Article Synopsis
- Desmoid fibromatosis (DF) is a rare, aggressive benign tumor that grows locally.
- The text discusses the literature on DF and presents a unique case study.
- A 22-year-old female patient was diagnosed with aggressive DF in her left pharyngeal wall when she was just 4 years old.
Background: causes severe diseases including sepsis, pneumonia and wound infections and is differentiated into hypervirulent (hvKp) and classic (cKp) pathotypes. hvKp isolates are characterized clinically by invasive and multiple site infection and phenotypically in particular through hypermucoviscosity and increased siderophore production, enabled by the presence of the respective virulence genes, which are partly carried on plasmids.
Methods: Here, we analyzed two isolates of a human patient that caused severe multiple site infection.