Hepatitis E Virus and Implications for Blood Supply Safety, Australia

1940 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 20, No. 11, November 2014 in previously healthy white patients from Germany differ from previously published cases. These 2 patients were not of Asian ethnicity and had no travel history, no contact with persons in a high-risk group (10), and no common risk factors such as malignancy (8); however, 1 patient had type-2 diabetes. K. pneumoniae liver abscesses might be an emerging problem with global spread. Although initial radiographic findings might more commonly indicate metastasis than abscesses, differential diagnosis of liver lesions should include K. pneumoniae– induced abscesses.