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Fatal Campylobacter jejuni bacteraemia in patients with AIDS
Roberto Manfredi1, Anna Nanetti2, Morena Ferri2
1Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica Specialistica e Sperimentale, Sezione di Malattie Infettive, Via Massarenti 11, 1-40138 Bologna, Italy.
Journal of Medical Microbiology
|June 8, 1999
Abstract:
Two fatal cases of Campylobacter jejuni septicaemia in patients with AIDS were characterised by severe HIV-related immunodeficiency, negative stool cultures and presentation during hospitalisation, developing a clinical picture of fulminant septic shock despite therapy with appropriate antibiotics. Campylobacter spp. are important opportunist pathogens in HIV disease and may cause a septicaemic illness in the absence of enteric disease.