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Group A streptococcal appendicitis in a patient with AIDS
J M Tufariello1, R N Kaleya, R S Klein
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|December 8, 2000
Abstract:
A man with AIDS developed appendicitis and bacteremia caused by Group A streptococcus, neither of which is considered an opportunistic infection. Group A streptococcus is rarely implicated in appendicitis in children and has not previously been reported in an adult. Immunodeficiency might have predisposed the patient to this unusual infection.