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Chronic Salmonella Infected Mouse Model
Published on: May 31, 2010
Salmonella epididymitis with recurrent septicemia in diabetic patient
Abstract:
A diabetic male patient presented with recurrent septicemia due to Salmonella panama. The nidus from which reinfections of the blood stream occurred was apparently localized in the epididymis. Cultures of semen grew Sal. panama while cultures of urine and stool showed no pathogens. This is the fifth reported case of salmonellosis involving epididymis and/or testicle, the first in a diabetic, and the first in which salmonella was found in cultures of semen. In this patient bacteriologic cure was obtained by use of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole obviating need for surgical extirpation of the infective focus as had been required in previously reported cases of salmonella epididymitis/orchitis.
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