TY - JOUR
TI - Plesiomonas shigelloides sepsis in a thalassemia intermedia patient
AU - Tzanetea, R.
AU - Konstantopoulos, K.
AU - Xanthaki, A.
AU - Kalotychou, V.
AU - Spiliopoulou, C.
AU - Michalopoulos, A.
AU - Rombos, Y.
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
PY - 2002
VL - 34
TODO - 9
SP - 687-689
PB - 
SN - 0036-5548, 1651-1980
TODO - 10.1080/00365540210147877
TODO - 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
TODO - 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.
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