This could lead to tissue death and require the amputation of one or more limbs. Other potential complications of meningitis ...

Then, at 19, she contracted a particularly virulent form of bacterial meningitis. She went into septic shock, which led to double amputation below the knees and the loss of her spleen and a kidney.

Klebsiella pneumoniae is an opportunistic bacterium that infects patients in hospitals, causing conditions like pneumonia, ...