[Klebsiella pneumoniae septicaemia and meningitis in a diabetic patient with an hepatic abscess]. / Septicémie et méningite à Klebsiella pneumoniae au depart d'un abcès hépatique chez un patient diabétique.

Klebsiella pneumoniae infections show particular features depending on the geographical localization as well as comorbidity factors. We are presenting the case of a european patient with diabetes mellitus who presented a septicaemia, a meningitis as well as an hepatic abscess due to a K. pneumoniae and whose evolution was excellent under antibiotics. Usually described among Asian patients, the primary hepatic K. pneumoniae abscess, which is a clinical entity recently described, can give rise to potentially serious and multiple septic metastasis. We also discuss the diagnostic and therapeutic attitudes related to this infection.