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Plesiomonas shigelloides sepsis in a thalassemia intermedia patient
Revekka Tzanetea1, Kostas Konstantopoulos, Anna Xanthaki
1First Department of Medicine, University of Athens Medical School at Laikon Hospital, Greece.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|October 11, 2002
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.