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Panagiota Xaplanteri1, Stelios F Assimakopoulos2, Kostis Karachalios2
1Department of Microbiology, University General Hospital of Patras, Greece.
Introduction:
Pleural empyema as a focal infection due to Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis is rare and most commonly described among immunosuppressed patients or patients who suffer from sickle cell anaemia and lung malignancies.
Case Presentation:
Here, we present an 81-year-old immunocompetent Greek woman with bacteraemia and pleural empyema due to Salmonella Enteritidis without any gastrointestinal symptoms.
Conclusion:
In our case, we suggest that patient's pleural effusion secondary to heart failure was complicated by empyema and that focal intravascular infection was the cause of bacteraemia.
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