TY - JOUR
TI - Multifocal Aeromonas Osteomyelitis in a Child with Leukemia.
AU - Doganis, Dimitrios
AU - Baka, Margarita
AU - Tsolia, Maria
AU - Pourtsidis, Apostolos
AU - Lebessi, Evangelia
AU - Varvoutsi, Maria
AU - Bouhoutsou, Despina
AU - Kosmidis, Helen
JO - Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
PY - 2016
VL - 2016
TODO - null
SP - 8159048
PB - 
SN - 2090-6625, 2090-6633
TODO - 10.1155/2016/8159048
TODO - null
TODO - Aeromonas hydrophila is a Gram negative organism causing both intestinal and extraintestinal disease. The case of a 14-year-old girl with underlying  immunodeficiency and leukemia who developed systemic A. hydrophila infection is  described in this report. While in deep bone marrow aplasia she developed fever,  severe pain in the lower extremities, and swelling of the left femur. Blood culture  showed Escherichia coli and A. hydrophila whereas pus culture from the soft tissue  swelling showed the presence of A. hydrophila. Imaging studies showed diffuse  osteolytic lesions. Patient received 5 months of intravenous and oral antibiotics  and she improved clinically whereas the radiology findings persisted.
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