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A Mouse Model of Intestinal Partial Obstruction
Published on: March 5, 2018
Intestinal obstruction associated with chronic peritonitis caused by Sphingomonas paucimobilis
Alberto Di Leo1, Rosanna Busetti2, Teresa Pusiol3
1Operative Unit of Surgery, APSS of Trento, Arco Hospital, Via Capitelli 50/52, 38062, Arco (TN), Italy. dileomd@libero.it.
Abstract:
We describe a very rare case of chronic peritonitis with secondary adhesive intestinal obstruction caused by Sphingomonas paucimobilis in a healthy 28-year-old Chinese man. This bacillus has not been described as a cause of spontaneous peritonitis in healthy people. It was an asymptomatic, generalized, and slow-growing peritonitis causing peritoneal adherens and at the end intestinal occlusion that needed surgical adhesiolysis.
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