Klebsiella Pneumonia Presenting With Candida Balanitis In A 23-Year-Old Immunocompetent Male: A Case Report

Abstract

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a facultative gram-negative bacillus that is not commonly known to cause dermatological infections. However, K. pneumoniae is one of the etiological organisms of erysipelas, and has also been found to cause more serious skin infections. According to C.M. Chang et al., K. pneumoniae was found to cause complicated skin (and soft tissue) infection of the extremities in adults sixteen years of age or older. Most of the patients infected with K. pneumoniae shared the characteristics of being male and frequently had liver cirrhosis, malignant neoplasm and alcoholism. Although K. pneumoniae commonly causes infections in immunocompromised individuals, there has been a recorded incidence of infection in an immunocompetent male, whom presented with a severe cellulitis of his left leg without concomitant infection.