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Herein, we describe the clinical features of liver abscesses and determine their incidence rates and clinical outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We retrospectively reviewed the clinical charts of adult patients with a primary diagnosis of liver abscess at a major hospital over a 7-year period.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Amongst 45 patients, 82.2% (37\/45) had a pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) and 17.8% (8\/45) had amoebic liver abscesses (ALA). Overall, patients were young (median age 42\u2009years, IQR 35\u201352), mostly males (77.8%, 35\/45) from the Indian subcontinent (55.6%, 25\/45), presented with fever (88.9%, 40\/45) and abdominal pain (88.9%, 40\/45), and had a solitary abscess on imaging (71.1% (32\/45). Crude annual incidence rates were 35.9\/100,000 hospital admissions (95% CI 26.2\u201348.0) and 5.9\/100,000 inhabitants (95% CI 4.3\u20137.9). All ALA patients were from the Indian subcontinent (100%, 8\/8). <jats:italic>Klebsiella pneumoniae<\/jats:italic> was the most frequent pathogen in PLA (43.2% [16\/37], 95% CI 27.1\u201360.5%). The hospital stay was shorter in ALA (7.5\u2009days, IQR 7\u20138.5) than in PLA (14\u2009days, IQR 9\u201317). No deaths were recorded within 30\u2009days of hospitalisation.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>ALA was exclusively seen in migrants from the Indian subcontinent, suggesting importation. Further research to characterise <jats:italic>K. pneumoniae<\/jats:italic> isolates and assess potential risk factors is needed.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s40794-021-00140-8","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,12]],"date-time":"2021-06-12T11:02:39Z","timestamp":1623495759000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Importation of Entamoeba histolytica and predominance of Klebsiella pneumoniae in liver abscesses: a 7-year retrospective cohort study from the United Arab Emirates"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Hussam","family":"Mousa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ghada Salameh Mohammed","family":"Al-Bluwi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zainab Fathi Mohammed","family":"Al Drini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Huda Imam","family":"Gasmelseed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jamal Aldeen","family":"Alkoteesh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6129-4597","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zahir Osman Eltahir","family":"Babiker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,12]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"140_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"60","DOI":"10.1136\/flgastro-2013-100371","volume":"5","author":"GJ Webb","year":"2014","unstructured":"Webb GJ, Chapman TP, Cadman PJ, Gorard DA. 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