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My five month old daughter has klebsiella pneumoniae. what causes this?

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Dr. Oscar Novick answered

Specializes in Pediatrics

Klebsiella pneumoni: Is your daughter immuno deficient? One possible way could be through a urinary tract infection brought on by fecal contamination. The urinary tract infection could have progressed to sepsis, a blood infection, which then seeded the lung good luck.

Answered 7/2/2015

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