@article{3004843,
    title = "Plesiomonas shigelloides sepsis in a thalassemia intermedia patient",
    author = "Tzanetea, R. and Konstantopoulos, K. and Xanthaki, A. and Kalotychou, V. and Spiliopoulou, C. and Michalopoulos, A. and Rombos, Y.",
    journal = "Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases",
    year = "2002",
    volume = "34",
    number = "9",
    pages = "687-689",
    issn = "0036-5548, 1651-1980",
    doi = "10.1080/00365540210147877",
    keywords = "amikacin;  ampicillin;  antibiotic agent;  aztreonam;  ceftazidime;  chloramphenicol;  cilastatin plus imipenem;  ciprofloxacin;  clindamycin;  cotrimoxazole;  deferiprone;  gentamicin;  hydroxyurea;  meropenem;  netilmicin;  pefloxacin;  piperacillin;  tetracycline;  ticarcillin;  tobramycin;  vancomycin, adrenal hemorrhage;  adult;  antibiotic sensitivity;  article;  bacteremia;  bacterium isolation;  blood culture;  case report;  death;  disease association;  disseminated intravascular clotting;  female;  gastroenteritis;  Greece;  human;  intensive care unit;  Plesiomonas shigelloides;  splenectomy;  thalassemia, Adult;  Anti-Bacterial Agents;  Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation;  Fatal Outcome;  Female;  Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections;  Greece;  Humans;  Plesiomonas;  Sepsis;  Splenectomy;  Thalassemia",
    abstract = "Bacteremia due to Plesiomonas shigelloides was associated with rapidly fulminant septicemia, disseminated intravascular coagulation and massive adrenal hemorrhage in a splenectomized patient suffering from thalassemia intermedia who was treated with hydroxyurea. P. shigelloides was isolated in blood cultures; despite a vigorous combination of antibiotics the patient died after 24 h in the ICU. Lethal sepsis due to P. shigelloides has not previously been reported in Greece."
}